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. It would […]
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