Direct cash programs are growing across America, offering a path out of poverty through economic mobility. During a two-week period in 2022, nearly a quarter of a million people in the Chicago area applied for the Cook County Promise Guaranteed Income Pilot, the nation’s largest direct cash pilot, and ultimately 3,250 families were randomly selected to get $500 a month for two years.
I created the program in partnership with my colleagues at the Cook County Government Bureau of Economic Development. We don’t have final data on the Promise Pilot yet, but similar direct cash initiatives have changed the physical, […]
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