Helsingin Sanomat's top story on Monday morning suggests that Finland's population is in freefall.
The article says that the number of people with Finnish backgrounds is decreasing at an astonishingly rapid pace.
In 90 years, according to HS, Finland may be home to fewer than one million people with Finnish backgrounds. This means that Finland will need immigration even more desperately than demographers have been saying for years.
Statistics Finland last year reported that that country's total fertility rate had dropped to historically low levels. The rate for the previous 12 months was 1.25. Maintaining the population at its current level would require a rate of 2.1. Now, in February, the preliminary figure was 1.26.
Varma pensions boss Risto Murto takes a shorter-term look at the issue, highlighting the lack of healthcare staff to care for the aging population, as the number of people over 85 is set to double in the next 15 years.
Finland's other official language
Is it difficult to use Finnish in the workplace, even if you're born and raised in Finland?
Hufvudstadsbladet looks at experiences of young nurses whose native language is Swedish and the struggles they've faced in managing a Finnish-speaking work environment.
"I was very motivated to learn and used Google Translate. I walked around with my little book where I wrote things down. In the beginning, I even wrote things on my hands. In the evenings, I sat at home and read everything I needed and watched Finnish TV shows," Nathalie Wikström, who had to cut her internship at HUS short over language problems, told HBL.
The paper noted that some healthcare regions allow nurses to enter information into the patient data system in Swedish, whereas some, like Helsinki, require all entries to be in Finnish, the main national language.
Courses offered at Arcada's Swedish-language nursing programme seem to assume students already speak Finnish natively, according to the Swedish-language daily.
The school said around 10 percent of its nursing students struggle with Finnish.
"Everything was always great with the patients…they were understanding about my Finnish," she said.
Onlyfans stars
The Tax Administration is increasingly homing in on content production-related income, reports Ilta-Sanomat.
People in Finland who earned income on the OnlyFans platform failed to report more than five million euros last year, according to the paper.
As of this year, the Finnish Tax Administration will start monitoring content creators more closely. This is because the authority will start receiving data from other countries' tax authorities on Finnish individuals' income on foreign content production platforms.
The tax authority started intensifying its monitoring last year.
"The Finnish Tax Administration added unreported income received through platforms to content creators' taxable income," Kari Torssonen of Vero said in a statement.
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