{"id":67159,"date":"2021-01-26T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-27T07:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/roll-out-the-barrel-second-annual-pfd-education-raffle-held\/"},"modified":"2021-01-27T16:35:46","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T01:35:46","slug":"roll-out-the-barrel-second-annual-pfd-education-raffle-held","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/roll-out-the-barrel-second-annual-pfd-education-raffle-held\/","title":{"rendered":"Roll out the barrel: Second annual PFD education raffle held"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t\t\t

They’re not quite one in a million, but some Alaskans are richer for being four in 9,833.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t

There were nearly 10,000 entries in the state’s second annual Permanent Fund Dividend Education Raffle, and on Wednesday, state Department of Revenue officials and state Sen. Click Bishop, R-Fairbanks, were present in the State Office Building to draw the names of four people who each won thousands of dollars.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t

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State Sen. Click Bishop (right) prepares to draw a name from the barrel during the second annual Permanent Fund Dividend Education Raffle while Department of Revenue deputy commissioner Mike Barnhill watches in the State Office Building on Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021. (Ben Hohenstatt \/ Juneau Empire)<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

The raffle was created by House Bill 213 in 2018<\/a>, which also created an education endowment fund and a dividend raffle fund. People are able to enter the raffle when applying for the PFD in exchange for a $100 contribution to public education.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t

“What we’ve done in a nutshell is create a Permanent Fund for education,” said Bishop, who was among the bill’s backers in the Senate in remarks prior to the drawing. He credited over a dozen other lawmakers with helping to pass the bill that created the raffle and funds.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t