Finland’s finance minister gives thumbs down to basic income pilot: ’We have to look at the incentives to work’

Finland’s finance minister gives thumbs down to basic income pilot: ’We have to look at the incentives to work’

Finland’s experiment with basic income is falling flat. With more than half a year left of the project, decision makers are already pulling the breaks. In an interview with Financial Times , the country’s finance minister Petteri Orpo states that he was never a fan of the project. He says that the current system has made people passive: “We have to look at the incentives to Since the beginning of last year, the government has been giving roughly 2,000 Finns €560 a month in free money to spend however they want. But soon they will have to return to […]

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