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Something big is happening today: The first payments in Evanston’s Guaranteed Income Pilot Program are going out! These are the first of twelve $500 monthly distributions that the 150 randomly selected eligible individuals and families will receive. Mayor Daniel Biss Guaranteed income pilots are popping up across the country, including in Chicago and Cook County. They’re simultaneously innovative and yet extraordinarily simple, and represent a fundamental break from a 45-year trend in American governance that took root with Ronald Reagan’s popularization of the racist and sexist “welfare queen” trope.The basic idea was this: that […]
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