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Speakers urge Cook County to make guaranteed income permanent after pilot, advisory committee formed
Summary
Community organizers and pilot participants told the board the county should identify revenue and make the Cook County guaranteed income program permanent and scaled, citing pilot enrollment and survey results.
Advocates at the Sept. 17 Cook County Board meeting urged commissioners to convert the county’s guaranteed income pilot into a permanent, scaled program and to identify stable revenue sources to sustain it.
"We believe that one way to begin to end poverty as we know it is by creating permanent guaranteed income programs that meet the needs of those that are most in need," said Byron Hobbs, director of organizing for Community Change, noting the county’s pilot from 2022…
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