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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Elvia Malagón

Cook County’s basic income pilot: 155,000+ applicants, just 3,250 spots

A sign promoting the Cook County Promise Guaranteed Income Pilot sits in front of St. Eulalia parish in Maywood. (Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times)

During the height of the coronavirus pandemic, Takiyah Franklin continued working as a phlebotomist even as she worried about the possibility of spreading COVID-19 to her own children.

“I couldn’t take off,” she said. “I had to work.”

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