Why the Finnish Basic Income Failed – and What We Can Learn From It

Why the Finnish Basic Income Failed – and What We Can Learn From It

"Perustulo" was the name of the internationally acclaimed project, which expired in Finland in just one year. Trends of the future reported in September 2017 on the sudden out. 2000 Finns received a monthly unconditional basic income of over 560 euros, which unfortunately they have to give back, because some things went differently than wanted. Instead of a mixed group, 2,000 unemployed were

Actually, the experiment had even been extended beyond 2018, but now it’s all over. The government simply does not finance "Perustulo" anymore – and there are no other donors. But the problems started much earlier, before […]

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