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Applications have opened for a huge new guaranteed-income pilot in Illinois that officials say is the biggest program of its kind

The $42 million pilot will give $500 a month to 3,250 households in Cook County for two years with no strings attached.

"Applications have opened for a $42 million guaranteed-income pilot in Illinois, where 3,250 households will be given $500 per month for two years.

The project will provide the "no-strings-attached" payments to residents of Cook County, the US's second-largest county by population. The county, which includes much of Chicago, has more than 5 million residents. 

Toni Preckwinkle, the president of the county's board of commissioners, said the program is the "largest publicly funded guaranteed-income pilot in American history." It aims to improve the health and financial well-being of the participants and will also be used to gather data on the impact of such projects.

A bellwether universal-basic-income program in Stockton, California, found that after a year of receiving $500 a month, full-time employment among participants had increased while depression and anxiety had decreased.

"We are confident that by directly investing in our residents — by giving poor folks what they need most, cash — we will have meaningful impact on our communities and create lasting change here in Cook County," Preckwinkle said on Twitter."

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Georgina Madley Named Head of Development at ITN

Georgina Madley Named Head of Development at ITN

ITN Productions has appointed Georgina Madley as Head of Development and promoted Grace Dean to Head of Short Form, it has been announced. (more…)

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Back Together // Grace & Rae

Grace smiled as she placed her laptop away, the final piece of her property that lay in the dingy motel room she had rented. It lay just outside of the quaint town of Mystic Falls, a place that Grace had only been residing in for a few days. She jotted down the address Rae had just given her and she made her way out of the undersized room, a permanent smile etched upon her face. She was excited, too excited to see her best friend again after weeks of being apart. Most girls would agree that being without your best friend for three weeks is tortuous; something that you wouldn’t want to think about because it pulls at you inside, it cuts deeper than a knife. But for Grace, those examples were understatements as to how she felt without her best friend by her side. Rae Taylor was her other half, the earth to her water, the heart to her beat and other things like that. She could still remember the day they met like it was a week ago, the dark haired girl six year old had come running towards a then brunette Grace at full speed, her little legs carrying her away as fast as she could until she flung herself at Grace, both girls falling to the floor with a scream. She remember how apologetic Rae had been and how happy Grace was that she had finally found someone to talk to in the dreary old place of Kansas.  

From that day on the girls had been inseparable. Rae had been there every time Grace had changed her hair colour or had a fight with her brother and Grace had been by Rae’s side every time her overly crappy parents gave her another lecture on the importance of something both girls couldn’t care less about. Grace remembered fondly the day she told Rae about her issues and episodes, she cried into the girl’s arms and Rae just held her tightly, whispering soothing words into her hair until she felt at ease once again. Most people around their school started to think that Grace and Rae were ‘together’ because of the closeness of their friendship but they’d both argue that it was just because they were two halves of a whole.

Grace was jolted out of her day dream when the cab halted at the given address; she thanked the driver and gave him the rest of her savings before clambering out of the car, dragging her duffel bag with her, the only thing that she had brought with her on her long journey to Mystic Falls. Grace swallowed the nervous feeling that was forming in the pit of her stomach and she walked up to the door, her hands shaking and sweating as she reached out and knocked, her anxious heart pleading for her best friend to hurry to the door.