Money for nothing? Finns tot up value of basic income experiment

Money for nothing? Finns tot up value of basic income experiment

Before receiving free money from Finland’s government, Sini Martinnen had to take great care to plot how much she could work without losing her unemployment benefits.

The 35-year-old consultant could make about €300 per month before she was taxed 50 cents in every euro above that. “You would spend a lot of time on the best strategy to get the most money,” she says.

But at the start of last year Ms Martinnen “won the lottery”, in her own words. The Helsinki resident was one of 2,000 unemployed people picked at random from across the country to take part in the […]

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