Finland’s Social Insurance Institution, or Kela, announced on Monday the launch of an experiment designed to test the potential effects of a universal basic income (UBI). Given that the program is in its earliest stages, however, it is far from "universal": 2,000 participants who were randomly selected from the country’s working-age (25 to 58), unemployed population will receive a basic income of €560 ($581) per month through the end of 2018.
Universal basic income is an old idea – Thomas Paine discussed it in the 18th century – but it has received renewed attention in recent years as automation threatens […]
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