Audio Audio: Yle News This week APN discussed Finland’s two-year basic income trial, which will wrap up at the end of the year. Our guests were Marjukka Turunen from the state benefits agency Kela, and Risto E.J. Penttilä , head of the Nordic West Office think tank. We also heard from Juha Järvinen , a well-known participant in the pilot.
In the trial, 2,000 randomly-selected unemployed jobseekers in Finland received 560 euros, tax-free, every month from the state. The aim was to see whether Finland’s labyrinthine system of benefits could be re-designed to deal with a changing economy, where full-time […]
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