Chicago is offering thousands of residents monthly $500 checks, with no strings attached and almost no questions asked. For recipients, it’s a lifeline.
Christopher Ellington, one of 5,000 Chicagoans selected to receive a guaranteed-cash income for a year with no strings attached, Feb. 8, 2023.
On Monday at its conference in Washington, which started over the weekend and runs through Tuesday, the National Association of Counties will announce a network of county-level basic income programs to match the mayoral initiatives that have sprouted to 50 cities. “There’s no indication that I see that the American public thinks what we really need is more aid to people who choose not to work,” said Robert Rector, a conservative public assistance expert at the Heritage Foundation who helped shape the welfare changes of the 1990s.
When she talks about the origins of the guaranteed basic income concept, Preckwinkle invokes not only Martin Luther King Jr. but the more confrontational Black Panthers.
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