Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle recently announced the details of the Cook County Promise Guaranteed Income Pilot, which will serve more than 3,000 residents of Cook County. Just last week, applications also closed for the Chicago Resilient Communities Pilot, which will provide $500 per month, no strings attached, to 5,000 Chicagoans over the next year. With the launch of these programs, our city suddenly finds itself at the center of the most significant social policy experiment of the last 20 years.
The idea of guaranteed income is not new. Figures from across the political spectrum, including conservative economist Milton […]
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