Finland’s failed universal income experiment

Finland’s failed universal income experiment

FILE – In this Saturday, July 29, 2017 file photo, Finland’s flag flies aboard the Finnish icebreaker MSV Nordica as it arrives into Nuuk, Greenland. A nationwide experiment with basic income in Finland has not increased employment among those participating during the first half of the two-year trial, but their general well-being seems to have increased, a report said Friday Feb. 8, 2019. (AP Photo/David Goldman, file) David Goldman Finland just concluded a two-year experiment with universal basic income, an idea promoted by prominent figures on the right and left in U.S. politics as one answer to rising automation […]

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