Credit: Andrii Yalanskyi/Shutterstock.com Evanston’s City Council Monday will be asked to spend $900,000 on a second test of a city-run guaranteed income program.
In a memo to the council , the city’s policy coordinator, Alison Leipsiger, says Northwestern University researchers studying the first version of the program found it to be “promising,” but she offered no details.
The new program would target census tract 8092, in Evanston’s 5th Ward, where child poverty rates are more than double the citywide average.It would serve families with pre-school age children who have incomes below 1.85 times the poverty level.They’d be eligible to receive $500 […]
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