Re:Finland Has Second Thoughts About Giving Free Money to Jo...
by ihodes on Friday April 27, 2018 @12:31AM
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No, they explicitly made this a conditional handout this year, which is very much a termination of the original plan. UBI researchers have generally considered this a failure already (not to mention that many economists think UBI cannot work, anyway).
"Finland has actually reversed course on that front this year, adopting rules that threaten to cut benefits for jobless people unless they actively look for work or engage in job training."
Re:Finland Has Second Thoughts About Giving Free Money to Jo...
by mistercow on Friday April 27, 2018 @04:46PM
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The best I can tell, the part of the article you've quoted is a reference to Finland's welfare policy in general, not this experiment. Note that it follows "a reflection of public discomfort with the idea of dispensing government largess free of requirements that its recipients seek work". Just bad writing, I think. But I can't find any other sources that back up the idea that they're changing this project mid flight, which would be a really bizarre thing to do, since it would completely invalidate any possible results.
What's happened recently is that they declined to extend it past two years.