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A grant program was unveiled Friday to help Chicago restaurants increase workers’ pay to minimum wage.
The program, High Road Kitchens, is run by the national nonprofit One Fair Wage in partnership with the city and offers grants of between $10,000 and $30,000. In return, a restaurant must agree to scale up their workers’ pay to $15 an hour by 2026.
Restaurants also have to commit to going through a race and gender equity training program and providing 500 free meals to the community.
The program is backed by $1 million from an unnamed donor. Grants will be distributed in $10,000 increments for every 500 free meals, with a maximum grant size of $30,000 per establishment, according to Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s office.
The San Diego Workforce Partnership, founded in 1974, is an organization that funds job training programs.
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