No new jobs but citizens found to be happier in Finland’s basic income test

No new jobs but citizens found to be happier in Finland’s basic income test

COPENHAGEN: A nationwide experiment with basic income in Finland has not increased employment among those participating in the two-year trial, but their general well-being seems to have increased, a report said Friday.

The Social Insurance Institution of Finland, or Kela, said “it was not yet possible to draw any firm conclusions” from the first half of the experiment, where about 2,000 randomly selected, unemployed people aged 25-58 got taxfree income of $636 a month with no questions asked.

Finland is looking into ways to reshape its social security system and became in January 2017 the first European country to launch the […]

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