It was one year ago that Finland began giving money to 2,000 unemployed people — roughly $652 a month (€560 or £475). But have we learned anything about universal basic incomes? An anonymous reader quotes the Guardian: Amid this unprecedented media attention, the experts who devised the scheme are concerned it is being misrepresented. " It’s not really what people are portraying it as ," said Markus Kanerva, an applied social and behavioural sciences specialist working in the prime minister’s office in Helsinki. "A full-scale universal income trial would need to study different target groups, not just the unemployed. […]
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