Four months after Finland’s social-security institution Kela launched a two-year experiment in basic income, a system of wealth distribution in which people receive a salary just for being alive, some of the 2,000 recipients are already reporting lower levels of stress.
The $600 they receive each month might not be much, but it’s enough to put some people’s anxiety at ease, Marjukka Turunen, head of Kela’s legal benefits unit, told Kera News .
“There was this one woman who said: ‘I was afraid every time the phone would ring, that unemployment services are calling to offer me a job,’” Turunen recalled […]
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