GiveDirectly to Administer Cash Grants Pilot in Chicago

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From Alex Tabarrok, quoting Bloomberg (paywalled link):

A nonprofit that originally focused on giving cash to impoverished people in Africa will soon be delivering money to poor residents of Chicago, in one of the largest tests of a guaranteed basic income program in the US.

GiveDirectly is administering a program that will give $500 a month to each of 5,000 households in Chicago as soon as the end of June. The city is using $31.5 million from the federal government’s American Rescue Plan Act for the year-long pilot, and hoping the payments will help it recover faster from the pandemic.

Seems interesting as a test of UBI, and nice to see GiveDirectly covered in news like this.