“Governments are scrambling to respond, and they don’t have many options. But one stands out as by far the most promising: a universal basic income. 

Once a fringe idea, basic income is now speeding its way into the public imagination….

We already know, from existing experiments, that a basic income can yield impressive results – reducing extreme poverty and inequality, stimulating local economies, and freeing people from having to accept slave-like working conditions simply in order to stay alive....”

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2017/mar/04/basic-income-birthright-eliminating-poverty