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Chicago said 176,000 households applied for the city's first-ever guaranteed income program.
Illinois' guaranteed basic income program will give no-strings-attached cash to families in the child welfare system.
[18] [19] Tubbs helped assemble a national coalition of mayors who support UBI, [20] [21] Mayors for a Guaranteed Income, which had more than 60 participating cities by 2022. [22] During his term, Tubbs also established an intervention program to reduce gun violence, programs to reduce homelessness, and mentorships for at-risk students. [20]
Guaranteed minimum income (GMI), also called minimum income (or mincome for short), is a social-welfare system that guarantees all citizens or families an income sufficient to live on, provided that certain eligibility conditions are met, typically: citizenship and that the person in question does not already receive a minimum level of income to live on.
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Ameya Pawar is the former alderman of Chicago's 47th Ward and the first Asian and Indian American elected to the Chicago City Council. After leaving office, Ameya joined the Economic Security Project as a senior fellow and is working on narrative change efforts around guaranteed income and public options, including public banks.
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Jones previously served on the Chicago Resilient Families Task Force, which was funded by the Economic Security Project, which proposed cash transfer to low-income families. The program was based on Jones' research which had identified that cash transfers can immediately improve well-being, and do not result in people leaving the workforce. [12]