Osmo Heikki Kristian Soininvaara (born 2 September 1951 in

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) is a

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politician and writer. He served as Minister of Social Services in

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's second cabinet between 14 April 2000 and 19 April 2002. He was the leader of the Finnish Green League party from 2001 to 2005. Currently, he is a member of the

city council. Soininvaara has a

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statistics Statistics (from German: '' Statistik'', "description of a state, a country") is the discipline that concerns the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of data. In applying statistics to a scientific, indust ...

. Before his political career he worked as a statistician. He was elected in

city council in 1985 and has served in various positions of trust in the city administration since then. He was elected in

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in 1987 and again in 1995 and was a member of parliament until 2007, when he chose not to stand for re-election. After a break he was elected to the parliament again in 2011, serving until 2015. Soininvaara is married to Anna-Maria Soininvaara and they have three children: Ohto (born 1990), Ilppo (born 1991), and Helmi (born 1997).

Basic income proposal

Soininvaara is a long-time advocate of a

basic income Universal basic income (UBI) is a social welfare proposal in which all citizens of a given population regularly receive an unconditional transfer payment, that is, without a means test or need to work. It would be received independently of ...

and has published several books and reports on this topic. In ''Hyvinvointivaltion eloonjäämisoppi'', awarded as the best economics book of 1994, he proposed a detailed basic income scheme differentiated for household composition.Osmo Soininvaara (1994), "Hyvinvointivaltion eloonjäämisoppi" (''A survival doctrine for the welfare state''), Juva, WSOY, 298 p,

References

External links

The official website of Osmo Soininvaara

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. Published 17 July 2014. 1951 births Living people Politicians from Helsinki Green League politicians Ministers of Social Affairs of Finland Members of the Parliament of Finland (1987–91) Members of the Parliament of Finland (1995–99) Members of the Parliament of Finland (1999–2003) Members of the Parliament of Finland (2003–07) Members of the Parliament of Finland (2011–15) Universal basic income activists Universal basic income writers Finnish bloggers {{Finland-politician-stub