Push for Universal Basic Income won’t end, despite Finland experiment’s upcoming conclusion

Push for Universal Basic Income won’t end, despite Finland experiment’s upcoming conclusion

Commiserations are in order for Finland’s Basic Income Experiment. The government announced last month it was going to end the Universal Basic Income idea at the end of the year, instead of expanding it like the Social Insurance Institution of Finland aka Kela requested. It’s sparked a variety of opinions with supporters like Leonid Bershidsky in Bloomberg and Antti Jauhiainen and Joona-Hermanni Mäkinen in The New York Times lamenting its planned end, while skeptics like Daniel J. Mitchell, writing at International Liberty saying he’s okay with the trial ending but is curious to see how the results turn out. […]

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