Juha Järvinen with three of his six children. Juha Järvinen, from the western Finnish city of Kurikka, felt like a lucky man in late 2016, when he learned he was one of the 2,000 unemployed selected to take part in a nationwide basic income experiment.
“When I saw the letter from Kela in the mailbox, I was like ’Yes!’”, he says.
Finland’s basic income trial is being run by the state-owned benefits administrator Kela. The 2,000 participants were selected from the ranks of existing labour market subsidy and unemployment benefit recipients. According to Statistics Finland’s Labour Force Survey, there were 213,000 […]
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