Larrison University of Illinois CHAMPAIGN — Coming soon to a cohort of homeless and housing-insecure families in Champaign County: $750 a month for six months, to use how they see fit.
A University of Illinois research team is “micro-piloting” a guaranteed basic income program for 10 local families with school-age children, to investigate whether transferring cash with no strings attached can decrease the number of students experiencing sheltered homelessness in the county.
“If we could see most of them return to permanent housing, that would be fantastic,” said Christopher Larrison, associate professor at the UI School of Social Work and principal […]
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