CHICAGO - Chicago is relaunching its guaranteed basic income program. The city will use 63-million-dollars in federal COVID-19 relief funding for the program, which provides a 500-dollar monthly stipend to low-income Chicagoans. The program launched in July 2022 under former Mayor Lori Lightfoot. It supported five-thousand residents picked from a citywide lottery.
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