Washington Examiner

Chicago’s Lightfoot pitches $500-per-month universal basic income for poor

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot wants to give about 5,000 of the Windy City’s poorest households $500 a month, no strings attached. The payments would be part of Lightfoot’s proposed $16.7 billion budget ...
AOL

Cook County, which includes Chicago, has made its guaranteed minimum income permanent

Cook County in Illinois, which includes Chicago, has approved a permanent basic income program.Mensent Photography/Getty Images Many American cities and counties have been experimenting with a novel ...
RealClearPolitics

Chicago’s Guaranteed Income Guarantees Less Opportunity

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, ...

Basic income’s appeal today is similar to its roots in 18th-century England – it’s a way to compensate people for a common good taken for private gain

A story has been going around about artificial intelligence for the past decade: At some point, AI advances, robots and ...
Yahoo

Cook County, which includes Chicago, has made its guaranteed minimum income permanent

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cook County in Illinois, which includes Chicago, has approved a permanent basic income program.Mensent Photography/Getty Images ...
Hosted on MSN

Cook County, which includes Chicago, has made its guaranteed minimum income permanent

Many American cities and counties have been experimenting with a novel concept: Giving financially vulnerable residents free money every month without expecting anything in return. The goal is to let ...