One of the world’s largest basic-income trials, a 2-year program in Finland, was a major flop. But experts say the test was flawed.

In 2017, Finland became the first European country to test a government-backed unconditional basic income , which gave people a regular stipend with no strings attached.

The trial ended in December 2018 and was widely considered a failure.

But many researchers argue that the experiment’s structure was flawed. Visit Business Insider’s homepage for more stories. It wasn’t the news that researchers wanted. Two years after Finland launched a basic-income trial in which nearly 2,000 unemployed residents were given a regular monthly stipend, many of the recipients remained jobless.The people reported that they were happier and healthier overall […]

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