Helsinki, Finland "We had to start from somewhere. The budget that we had at our disposal was rather limited. It meant that at best we could [cover] 2,000 persons. And we thought that the unemployed are the group that can be of interest from our perspective. If basic income is something that [encourages] people to take jobs, in this case unemployed persons are the best group to start with," Kangas, KELA’s director of research, explained.
KELA is a Finnish government agency tasked with running the country’s social security programs. The UBI initiative will see the government pay a guaranteed minimum […]
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