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Kela to prepare basic income proposal
The Finnish Social Insurance Institution is to begin drawing up plans for a citizens' basic income model. The preparation's director Olli Kangas says that full-fledged basic income would net Finns some 800 euros a month.
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Finland is considering a radical plan to give everybody free money
Basic income — the concept of giving people money with no strings attached— is having anything but a basic year. Three months ago, the Dutch city of Utrecht announced it would launch a program to give people on welfare unconditional free money. The plan was so popular that it has spread to more than two dozen Dutch towns. Now Finland wants in on the action. The big difference: the country wants to give money to everybody, not just people on welfare.
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Basic income: how Finland plans to implement the first nation-wide project in the EU
The Finnish Social Insurance Institution (KELA) has given some preliminary elements concerning Finland’s plan to experiment and then generalize the implementation of a basic income in the country. In its final version, the basic income would replace other benefits people currently receive, and would therefore be rather high, as indicated by Kela’s Research Department Director Olli Kangas. It is considered that all Finnish citizens would be paid an untaxed benefit sum free of charge by...
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Finland plans to pay everyone in the country $876 a month
Imagine this: as you're worried about how to pay bills and make your rent, you get a check from the government for $876. Every month. That's what Finland is doing. The Nordic nation is getting closer this month to finalizing a solution to poverty: paying each of its 5.4 million people $876 tax-free a month — and in return, it will do away with welfare benefits, unemployment lines, and the other bureaucracy of its extensive social safety net.
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Finnish Police Arrest Iraqi Twins Linked to ISIS Massacre in 2014
The police in Finland arrested Iraqi twin brothers on Tuesday suspected of being members of the Islamic State and of shooting 11 unarmed prisoners in Iraq in June 2014, Finnish news reports said Thursday. Finland’s National Bureau of Investigation said on Thursday that the men had arrived in Finland in September and were arrested following an investigation. News reports said they did not resist arrest.
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Norwegians campaign to give Finland a mountain
A Facebook campaign has been launched for Norway to give their flat Finnish neighbour a mountain that would become its new highest peak as a gift for the centenary of its independence. The campaign, “Halti as an anniversary gift” has won the support of the head of the Norwegian Mapping Authority, and been warmly received in Finland where one commentator claimed the gesture "would be remembered for a thousand years”.
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Fleeting Wonders: 400 Glow-in-the-Dark Reindeer
If you're on the lookout for magical reindeer this year, don't bother gazing skyward... By Cara Giaimo.
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Finland wins gold in 2016 World Juniors
In a tense and thrilling climax to the 2016 World Juniors, Kasperi Kapanen's overtime winner at 1:33 gave host Finland a 4-3 gold medal victory over Russia.
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Unprecedented sex harassment in Helsinki at New Year: police
Finnish police reported Thursday an unusually high level of sexual harassment in Helsinki on New Year's Eve and said they had been tipped off about plans by groups of asylum seekers to sexually harass women. Helsinki deputy police chief Ilkka Koskimaki told AFP: "There hasn't been this kind of harassment on previous New Year's Eves or other occasions for that matter... This is a completely new phenomenon in Helsinki."
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Finnish Wartime Photograph Archive
The digital archive contains around 160,000 photographs from the Second World War from a time period of six years, from autumn 1939 to the summer of 1945. The pictures portray life on the home front, damage done by bombings, the war industry, the evacuation of Finnish Karelia as well as events and operations at the front.
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Kaasua! 5 - Finnish Rally Action 2015
"Kaasua 5" Finnish rally crash & action compilation 2015. Crashes, over 50 rolls, close calls and other action. Thanks to JJalovaara, check out his channel and subscribe.
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Finnish PM drops promise to let refugees use his home
Finland’s prime minister, Juha Sipila, has said he will not be able fulfil a promise to put up a family of asylum seekers. Sipila, a former telecoms executive, prompted controversy in September by saying he would open his second home in northern Finland to refugees. ‘Refugees are warm, emotional people. There’s a lot we can learn’ But on Sunday he told public YLE radio that he had had to put the plan on hold because of security concerns...
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TV-media in Finland teaches citizens how to protect women from being raped
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Clothes of the future will adjust to the weather, body temperature
A group of scientists in Finland are the definition of fashion forward. They're working on designing the clothes of the future -- smart clothes. Their work is part of the Smart Clothing project at the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd., a nonprofit research and development organization in Finland. Scientists have developed smartphones, smart cars and smart homes. Now, they're working on smart clothes. In this instance...
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Tax-free, guaranteed basic income of 560 Euro moving forward in Finland
The green party of Finland is going to present taking into use a basic income model. This would remove minimum social benefits and replace them with a tax free payment of 560 Euro (approx. 630 USD) each month to every Finnish Citizen. The basic income is going to be tested in the year 2017. The party believes that replacing the benefits with the basic income will help people who work to make more income for themselves by being active citizens. People with part time...
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Why babies all over the world are now sleeping in boxes
Nearly three years ago, the Magazine reported on the Finnish baby box - a starter kit of clothes, sheets and toys the state gives to expectant mothers. The story went viral and was read by 10 million people in 18 months. Now the box idea itself is spreading around the world. It's a tradition that dates back to the 1930s. Every new mother, regardless of background or income, gets a baby box from the government.
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The Fit Children of Seinäjoki
It's a cool April morning at Seinäjoen Yhteiskoulu and patches of snow can still be found in the schoolyard. In one of the classes, teacher Laura Jokiranta whistles loudly with her fingers -- the sign for her students to start running. There are, no doubt, many biology teachers around the world who would view the use of fitness games in the classroom with some skepticism. But Jokiranta includes them almost daily, as do the other teachers at the school in Seinäjoki...
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Burger King has opened its first spa and you can order in
Nibble on a Whopper while you relax.
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Effort to Expose Russia’s ‘Troll Army’ Draws Vicious Retaliation
Finland is an active front in an online “information war” between Russia and the West. When a journalist there confronted pro-Putin agitators, she became a target.
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The Lost World
Shipwreck on a clear night off the coast of Finland. By Mikko Lagerstedt.
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