Pirkko Mattila (BR), the Minister of Social Affairs and Health, and Olli Kangas, a professor of practice at the University of Turku, were in attendance as the first preliminary results of Finland’s widely discussed basic income trial were released in Helsinki on Friday, 8 February. (Credit: Jussi Nukari – Lehtikuva) FINLAND’S much-discussed basic income trial appears to have had neither a positive nor a negative impact on the employment of the participants, according to the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health and the Social Insurance Institution of Finland (Kela). Preliminary results from the first year of the two-year trial […]
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