UBI at this time is like topical ointment on a festering wound. Americans first need livable wages and single-payer healthcare that isn't Medicare, which is a Byzantine, confusing maze of dozens of coverage options largely outsourced to for-profit corporations.
Ointment on a festering wound applies much more to healthcare, which can't fix many problems associated with poverty, like stress, bad nutrition, bad housing and to livable wages, which don't help people who don't have a job, then to UBI.
