Cook County’s pilot guaranteed income program, which provided $500 per month to 3,250 low- and moderate-income residents, ...

Basic income pilot programs have distributed over $335 million in economic relief to Americans, according to a coalition of ...

Cook County has completed its Guaranteed Income pilot program, which delivered unconditional monthly payments of $500 for two years to 3,250 low- and moderate-income families. The ...

There have been more than 150 guaranteed income pilot programs implemented across the country, but only one has made its program permanent - Cook County, Illinois. The county, which includes Chicago, ...

Cook County, Illinois, has taken a historic step by transforming its Guaranteed Income pilot program into a permanent initiative. Initially launched in 2022 with $42 million in federal COVID-19 relief ...

Cook County just committed millions of public dollars to keep sending no-strings-attached cash to low income residents, turning what began as a pandemic experiment into a permanent feature of local ...

"The question we don't really have a good answer to is, what would happen if we scaled these programs up on a larger level?" ...