Thousands of Chicago and Cook County residents got $500 a month the past year from programs that are aiming to give people a little financial cushion.
When Jailyn Brown was selected to join a pilot program that gives cash to people struggling to make ends meet, the 23-year-old could hardly get enough hours at the retail store in Chicago where she worked to cover her expenses.
By: Jonathan Weisman See original post here. CHICAGO — Christopher Ellington’s South Side photography studio crashed in 2020 with the onset of the pandemic. By March
By: ELLA CERON AND BLOOMBERG Chicago and other cities in Illinois are offering some of their residents a guaranteed income in pilot program as they seek to even out
By: LESLIE HURTADO BRIAN YOUNG JR See original post here. For people who have been incarcerated, monthly cash assistance could be the support they need to
By: Shruti Singh See original post here. A nonprofit that originally focused on giving cash to impoverished people in Africa will soon be delivering money
See original post here. The city of Chicago is accepting applications to one of the most ambitious guaranteed income programs in the United States. The Chicago
Original post can be seen here. Time is running out to apply for the Chicago Resilient Communities guaranteed basic income pilot program. The program will
By: Heather Cherone. Original post can be seen here. More than 90,000 Chicagoans applied to be part of the city’s study that will test whether
By: ALICE YIN See original post here. Chicago residents can start applying for the city’s $500-per-month basic income pilot program in less than two weeks, Mayor
BY LEA HOEFER, ERIC REINHART, AND TANYA L. ZAKRISON Original Post: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/03/how-cash-transfer-programs-prevent-violent-crime.html Every night in Chicago, trauma surgeons face a scenario that loops on seemingly endless repeat. An
Three months after the City Council OK’d what’s touted as the largest such program in the United States — $31.5 million to help 5,000 needy
Whenever someone tells me if “poor” people had more money, we could stop the killings, I want to scream. Those are not “poor” people firing
Each month, 1,000 struggling Chicagoans would get $1,000, no strings attached, to help break the cycle of poverty, under a trail-blazing pilot program proposed Thursday
