Applications have opened for a huge new guaranteed-income pilot in Illinois that officials say is the biggest program of its kind

Applications have opened for a huge new guaranteed-income pilot in Illinois that officials say is the biggest program of its kind

Applications have opened for a $42 million guaranteed-income pilot in Cook County, Illinois.

3,250 households will be given $500 a month for two years with no strings attached.

Applications have opened for a $42 million guaranteed-income pilot in Illinois, where 3,250 households will be given $500 per month for two years.The project will provide the "no-strings-attached" payments to residents of Cook County, the US’s second-largest county by population. The county, which includes much of Chicago, has more than 5 million residents.Toni Preckwinkle, the president of the county’s board of commissioners, said the program is the "largest publicly funded guaranteed-income […]

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