When Jailyn Brown was selected to join a pilot program that gives cash to people struggling to make ends meet, the 23-year-old could hardly get enough hours at the retail store in Chicago where she worked to cover her expenses.
Less than six months into the Cook County Promise Guaranteed Income Pilot, Brown found a job as a teacher’s assistant at a daycare center on the North Side that’s paying her $1 less an hour than her retail job. But now she knows she’ll have a full-time consistent weekly schedule.
