Finland to end basic income trial after two years

[Ambivalent1]

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Europe’s first national government-backed experiment in giving citizens free cash will end next year after Finland decided not to extend its widely publicised basic income trial and to explore alternative welfare schemes instead.


Since January 2017, a random sample of 2,000 unemployed people aged 25 to 58 have been paid a monthly €560 (£475) , with no requirement to seek or accept employment. Any recipients who took a job continued to receive the same amount.

The government has turned down a request for extra funding from Kela, the Finnish social security agency, to expand the two-year pilot to a group of employees this year, and said payments to current participants will end next January."

Finland to end basic income trial after two years

Because Socialism works wherever it is tried...

 

[JGalt]

Yet one more "liberal socialist paradise" falls by the roadside.

 

[boedicca]

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Europe’s first national government-backed experiment in giving citizens free cash will end next year after Finland decided not to extend its widely publicised basic income trial and to explore alternative welfare schemes instead.


Since January 2017, a random sample of 2,000 unemployed people aged 25 to 58 have been paid a monthly €560 (£475) , with no requirement to seek or accept employment. Any recipients who took a job continued to receive the same amount.

The government has turned down a request for extra funding from Kela, the Finnish social security agency, to expand the two-year pilot to a group of employees this year, and said payments to current participants will end next January."

Finland to end basic income trial after two years

Because Socialism works wherever it is tried...

Well, you know:

 

[caddo kid]

Has Finland managed to rack up $22 TRILLION in public debt, yet?

Has Finland managed to rack up about $50 TRILLION in unfunded liabilities, yet?

 

[depotoo]

Has Finland managed to rack up $22 TRILLION in public debt, yet?

Has Finland managed to rack up about $50 TRILLION in unfunded liabilities, yet?

If they had, it would be even more outrageous.
5.5 million population, approximately 117,000 sq miles
US. 335 million, 3.5 million square miles

Yeah, ours is outrageous, but to even try to compare them is ludicrous.

 

[Oddball]

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Europe’s first national government-backed experiment in giving citizens free cash will end next year after Finland decided not to extend its widely publicised basic income trial and to explore alternative welfare schemes instead.


Since January 2017, a random sample of 2,000 unemployed people aged 25 to 58 have been paid a monthly €560 (£475) , with no requirement to seek or accept employment. Any recipients who took a job continued to receive the same amount.

The government has turned down a request for extra funding from Kela, the Finnish social security agency, to expand the two-year pilot to a group of employees this year, and said payments to current participants will end next January."

Finland to end basic income trial after two years

Because Socialism works wherever it is tried...

Wait a minute....This happened in Scandinavia, where they have magical pixie dust that makes socialism work!

You must have got this fake news from Alex Jones or something!

 

[caddo kid]

Has Finland managed to rack up $22 TRILLION in public debt, yet?

Has Finland managed to rack up about $50 TRILLION in unfunded liabilities, yet?

If they had, it would be even more outrageous.
5.5 million population, approximately 117,000 sq miles
US. 335 million, 3.5 million square miles

Yeah, ours is outrageous, but to even try to compare them is ludicrous.

it was a question; not a comparison.

 

[Oddball]

Has Finland managed to rack up $22 TRILLION in public debt, yet?

Has Finland managed to rack up about $50 TRILLION in unfunded liabilities, yet?

No....They were smart enough to end their failed central planner fiddling after a couple of years....This makes them way smarter than you lolberal moonbats.

 

[presonorek]

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Europe’s first national government-backed experiment in giving citizens free cash will end next year after Finland decided not to extend its widely publicised basic income trial and to explore alternative welfare schemes instead.


Since January 2017, a random sample of 2,000 unemployed people aged 25 to 58 have been paid a monthly €560 (£475) , with no requirement to seek or accept employment. Any recipients who took a job continued to receive the same amount.

The government has turned down a request for extra funding from Kela, the Finnish social security agency, to expand the two-year pilot to a group of employees this year, and said payments to current participants will end next January."

Finland to end basic income trial after two years

Because Socialism works wherever it is tried...

This is stupid.

 

[Ambivalent1]

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Europe’s first national government-backed experiment in giving citizens free cash will end next year after Finland decided not to extend its widely publicised basic income trial and to explore alternative welfare schemes instead.


Since January 2017, a random sample of 2,000 unemployed people aged 25 to 58 have been paid a monthly €560 (£475) , with no requirement to seek or accept employment. Any recipients who took a job continued to receive the same amount.

The government has turned down a request for extra funding from Kela, the Finnish social security agency, to expand the two-year pilot to a group of employees this year, and said payments to current participants will end next January."

Finland to end basic income trial after two years

Because Socialism works wherever it is tried...

This is stupid.

Prove it wrong little man.

 

[Votto]

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Europe’s first national government-backed experiment in giving citizens free cash will end next year after Finland decided not to extend its widely publicised basic income trial and to explore alternative welfare schemes instead.


Since January 2017, a random sample of 2,000 unemployed people aged 25 to 58 have been paid a monthly €560 (£475) , with no requirement to seek or accept employment. Any recipients who took a job continued to receive the same amount.

The government has turned down a request for extra funding from Kela, the Finnish social security agency, to expand the two-year pilot to a group of employees this year, and said payments to current participants will end next January."

Finland to end basic income trial after two years

Because Socialism works wherever it is tried...

It would have worked if it were not for the republicans.