You hear about them every so often: pilot programs that give a select group of people a guaranteed income for a specific amount of time in a quest to see if such an approach can make a difference in the fight against poverty. In a deep dive for Chicago Magazine, Elly Fishman looks at how such a program—the Chicago Resilient Communities Pilot—impacted one of the 5,000 people who participated in it beginning in May 2022. Keep reading Everyone in the New Zealand tennis world knows David Lewis, writes Matthew Futterman for the New York Times. They also know "what happened to his family." Keep reading
In one sense, the story by Katherine Laidlaw in Toronto Life recounts a straightforward, depressing crime: When an elderly man with dementia died without a will and seemingly without relatives, a couple successfully schemed to illegally obtain his estate of more than $800,000. They pulled it off because Adellene Balgobin, now 36, worked for the Ontario Public Guardian and Trustee service and fudged paperwork to suggest that her boyfriend, police officer Robert Konashewych, 39, was the dead man's longtime friend and thus entitled to the money. Keep reading Frank DeAngelis used to belong to a lonely club of one. Now, he's got nearly two dozen companions in that club, but it's one he wishes didn't exist. Keep reading When it comes to Appalachian Trail legends, Warren Doyle's name has a place at the top of the list. The 73-year-old set a fastest known time of 66 days five decades ago, has hiked all 2,198 miles of the trial 18 times, has coached other AT record setters, and has since 1989 run the Appalachian Trail Institute (ATI), imparting his knowledge to would-be hikers during a quarterly five-day seminar. Keep reading
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Saturday, November 25, 2023
What Happened When Chicago Gave Her $500 a Month (Newser Deep Dive)
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