One year down, one to go: A view on Finland’s basic income experiment

One year down, one to go: A view on Finland's basic income experiment

Image: Janne Lindroos / Yle Juha Järvinen was one of 2,000 unemployed people in Finland randomly chosen to receive 560 tax-free euros per month with no strings attached in early 2017. The two-year trial is testing the results of a universal basic income in the face of stubborn long-term unemployment. Yle caught up with him to see how the first year has gone.

"This has been a super interesting year for me. It has pretty much been spent giving interviews. I’ve done close to 300. No one from Africa has approached me yet, but almost the entire rest of the […]

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