8 basic income experiments to watch out for in 2017

Within the last couple years, basic income - a scheme in which citizens receive regular payments to cover basic living costs - has touched nearly all corners of the world.

Experiments from Kenya to the Netherlands to California are poised to reveal in 2017 what happens when governments and private organizations give people money for nothing: Do people work less? Do they escape poverty? How many sit and do nothing?

Here are the experiments leading that charge.