I’ve been meaning to write about universal basic incomes for a while, particularly since it is something that we discuss in my ECONS102 class each year (and something I cover in regular courses for officials from the Vietnamese Social Security Administration). There are several current experiments in universal basic income (including GiveDirectly ‘s experiment in Kenya, some pilot programmes in India , and several others ). However, one of the headline experiments in Finland may be coming to a close, as the New York Times reported last month : For more than a year, Finland has been testing the […]
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