{"id":19056,"date":"2015-11-03T19:11:24","date_gmt":"2015-11-04T03:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/finland-prepares-universal-basic-income-experiment"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:20:03","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:20:03","slug":"finland-prepares-universal-basic-income-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/finland-prepares-universal-basic-income-experiment","title":{"rendered":"Finland prepares universal basic income experiment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/finland-prepares-universal-basic-income-experiment.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pack a heavy coat, folks, we\u2019re going to Finland. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kela.fi\/web\/en\" target=\"_blank\">Finnish Social Insurance Institution<\/a>, also known as Kela, has begun work on a proposal that would guarantee a basic income to every citizen of the small Nordic nation. This system of a universal state-facilitated payment delivered to every Finnish person would transform the state\u2019s welfare system and potentially provide a blueprint for other countries looking to build a different kind of economy.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:inline; margin: 0; margin-right: 8px;\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/finland-prepares-universal-basic-income-experiment2.jpg\" title=\"Southern_Helsinki_panorama_2011-06-28_1\" alt=\"\" width=\"105\" height=\"105\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:inline; margin: 0; margin-right: 8px;\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/finland-prepares-universal-basic-income-experiment3.jpg\" title=\"Pajarilantielt\u00e4\" alt=\"\" width=\"105\" height=\"105\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/inhabitat.com\/finland-prepares-universal-basic-income-experiment\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pack a heavy coat, folks, we\u2019re going to Finland. The Finnish Social Insurance Institution, also known as Kela, has begun work on a proposal that would guarantee a basic income to every citizen of the small Nordic nation. This system of a universal state-facilitated payment delivered to every Finnish person would transform the state\u2019s welfare [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19056"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69244,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19056\/revisions\/69244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}