6 years ago
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Basic income trial falls flat in Finland
The Finnish government has decided not to expand a limited trial in paying people a basic income, which has drawn much international interest. Currently 2,000 unemployed Finns are receiving a flat monthly payment of €560 (£490; $685) as basic income. "The eagerness of the government is evaporating. They rejected extra funding [for it]," said Olli Kangas, one of the experiment's designers. Some see basic income as a way to get unemployed people into temporary jobs.
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It's never been explained at all, why they decided on the trial nor why they canned it now.
So true..And that,of course,is everybodie's burning question.
Try it again once more automation steals more jobs.
So not even in Finland. That sounds like a final sentence for UBI for at least a decade or two.