A large study of the “universal basic income” handout in Finland found exactly what you’d expect. Giving people “free” money makes them marginally happier but not noticeably more productive. In 2017, ...

Finland’s experiment in giving people no-strings-attached money was too oddly constructed to take much from it, but one thing is clear–having more money is good for people’s well-being. As global ...

It looks like 2,000 citizens in Finland will welcome the new year with outstretched arms. These Finns are the lucky recipients of a guaranteed income beginning this year, as the country’s government ...

For two years, the Finnish social security agency — KELA — has been giving 2,000 unemployed Fins 560 euro ($635.4) a month to test not only how much a basic income would improve their livelihoods, but ...

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Image source: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. And Social Security is just the beginning of the problem. From SSA to SSI, SNAP, TANF, WIC, Section 8, and more, America's economic ...

A number of countries are toying with the idea of introducing the scheme known as Universal Basic Income (UBI). It replaces the traditional means-tested welfare system with a no-strings-attached ...

The notion of a “guaranteed income” has been gaining steam with the progressive crowd and even with a few academics on the right who believe it could help control the mushrooming welfare state. At the ...

Finland’s government has rejected calls for the expansion of its universal basic income trial, reports the BBC. Finland initiated the trial in 2017, which saw 2,000 unemployed Finns receiving a ...