{"id":7080,"date":"2019-02-03T15:58:10","date_gmt":"2019-02-03T15:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/did-finlands-basic-income-experiment-work\/"},"modified":"2019-02-03T15:58:10","modified_gmt":"2019-02-03T15:58:10","slug":"did-finlands-basic-income-experiment-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/did-finlands-basic-income-experiment-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Finland&#8217;s basic income experiment work?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p>Finland has just completed a major basic income experiment where 2,000 unemployed people were given \u20ac560 (\u00a3490) a month for two years, instead of their unemployment benefit.<\/p>\n<p>The basic income was paid with no strings attached. Recipients weren&#8217;t required to seek or accept jobs but still received the payment if they found a job.<\/p>\n<p>The Finnish government wanted to see if this financial incentive encouraged people to get jobs or start businesses.<\/p>\n<p>The BBC followed two participants, Tanja and Tuomas, for two years to see what impact free money had on their lives.<\/p>\n<p><i>Producer: Erika Benke. Camera: Richard Perry and Maxim Lomakin.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-europe-47092727\">Source<\/a> by <a href=\"\">[author_name]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finland has just completed a major basic income experiment where 2,000 unemployed people were given \u20ac560 (\u00a3490) a month for two years, instead of their unemployment benefit. The basic income was paid with no strings attached. Recipients weren&#8217;t required to seek or accept jobs but still received the payment if they found a job. The &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7081,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}