Meet Chicagoans who plan to apply for the city’s guaranteed income pilot – WBEZ (Chicago)

According to an analysis of 2020 census microdata prepared by the University of Minnesota, as many as 790,000 people meet that income requirement and could be eligible, technically, to apply for these 5,000 spots. About 40% of those people are Black 30% are Latino, 20% are white and 7% are Asian or Pacific Islanders. Much larger shares of the population could be eligible in the city’s South and West side neighborhoods compared to North Side areas.