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thenewgreen  ·  3299 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Finland plans to give every citizen 800 euros a month and scrap benefits

It says that the Netherlands have been trialling the approach. I wonder if there is preliminary data there? veen -any idea?





veen  ·  3299 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Basic income is hot & happening here. Just today, a few big municipalities voted to deregulate social benefits - a move against the newly introduced Participation Law, which introduced more rules and regulations to social benefits.

A lot of cities are developing plans for basic income experiments, but I don't think any one of them has started giving money away yet. It's a popular idea here in no small part because the organization that controls and regulates social benefits is so awfully inefficient at getting people to work again.