Christopher Santiago, 38, hangs out at home in Alsip, Ill., with one of his three children, 9-year-old Calliope. He says Cook County’s basic income program has let him provide more for his kids. Christopher Santiago recalls being skeptical the first time he heard about basic income — giving people cash with no conditions on how to spend it. It was 2020, when presidential candidate Andrew Yang pitched it for all American adults, and Santiago thought, "That doesn’t make much sense."
But for a year now, Santiago has been getting $500 a month through one of the largest cash aid pilots […]
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