The Champaign County Guaranteed Income Project could provide a path to alleviating poverty

The Champaign County Guaranteed Income Project could provide a path to alleviating poverty

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A University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign research team will be micro-piloting a guaranteed basic income program for ten local families with school-aged children called the Champaign County Guaranteed Income Project . The team is led by Christopher Larrison, an associate professor of social work at the U of I, and Kim Nix, the overseer of homeless services in Champaign and Ford counties. Their goal is to determine whether giving "no-strings-attached" cash to families will decrease the number of students experiencing sheltered homelessness in the county. Federal law defines homeless people as "individuals who lack a fixed, regular and adequate […]

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