Cook County, Illinois, is making its guaranteed basic income program permanent after launching it as a pilot program in 2022 with the help of federal COVID-19 relief funds.

The Cook County Board of Commissioners unanimously approved $7.5 million to make the program permanent last week, Fox News reported . Cook County is the second-largest county in the U.S. and includes the city of Chicago.

“Guaranteed basic income programs have become a trend across the U.S. in recent years with more than 100 pilots launched since 2018. Mayors for Guaranteed Income grew into a coalition of 150 mayors pushing pilot programs, offering low-income participants up to $1,000 a month with no strings attached,” according to the report. “The group has pushed pilot programs that have been adopted by municipalit

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