Four months after Finland’s social-security institution Kela launched a two-year experiment in basic income, a system of wealth distribution in which people receive a salary just for being alive, some of the 2,000 recipients are already reporting lower levels of stress. The $600 they receive each month might not be much, but it’s enough to put some people’s anxiety at ease, Marjukka Turunen, head of Kela’s legal benefits unit, told Kera News. “There was this
Finland’s basic income experiment is already lowering stress levels
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