The NYT Gets the Finland Basic Income Story Wrong

The NYT Gets the Finland Basic Income Story Wrong

Share Tweet European Council / Flickr As someone who follows Finland very closely, I must register complete bafflement at this Peter Goodman piece in the New York Times about the coming end of the Finland Basic Income experiment. The piece is titled “Finland Has Second Thoughts About Giving Free Money to Jobless People” and then argues that the regular end of Finland’s 2-year basic income experiment indicates some kind of shift in Finnish sentiment about providing income benefits to jobless people. But no such shift has occurred at any level, not in the government and not in the public.

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