Participants of the basic income trial in Finland could be engaged in any activity, or not engaged in any activity, and still receive cheques. Photo: (Reuters: Ints Kalnins)
Finland recently cooled on its so-called "universal basic income" experiment of replacing traditional unemployment relief with unconditional flat cheques for a sample of unemployed adults.
Contrary to what its name suggests, the trialled scheme was not "universal": a sample of already-unemployed people, not a sample of the whole population, received cheques. Tim Roxburgh tries to make sense of the push for a universal basic income. What mainly set it apart from conventional […]
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