July 20, 2017
New York Times
Antti Jauhiainen and Joona-Hermanni Mäkinen
Why Finland’s Basic Income Experiment Isn’t Working
Eyes turned to Finland at the beginning of the year, when the government initiated a national test run for universal basic income. As a rich country in the European Union, with one of the highest rates of social spending in the world, Finland seemed like an ideal testing ground for a state-of-the-art social welfare experiment.
In reality, the Finnish trial was poorly designed, and is little more than a publicity stunt.