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By Tiziana Di Giovannandrea 12 April 2020 On Easter Sunday, Pope Francis hypothesizes the adoption of an economic device aimed at helping the weaker social groups, particularly affected by the Coronavirus emergency. A basic form of universal remuneration for all those who do not have a salary, income, fixed income that allows them to bear and overcome the economic instability caused by Covid-19.

Those whom Pope Francis calls "the invisible army fighting in the most dangerous trenches". An army that "has no other weapons but solidarity, hope and a sense of community that flourishes in these days when nobody saves themselves ".

Pope Bergoglio sent a letter, published in Avvenire, "to the brothers and sisters of the Movements and popular organizations", who have met on three occasions in recent years: the first and third meetings in the Vatican, the second in Santa Cruz de the Sierra, during the Bolivian pilgrimage of the Pope. "You are looked at with suspicion because you go beyond mere philanthropy through the community organization or because you claim your rights instead of resigning yourself to waiting to pick up some crumbs fallen from the table of those who have economic power".

"You are for me real 'social poets' - he writes - who from the forgotten suburbs create dignified solutions for the most burning problems of the excluded. You, precarious, independent workers, of the informal sector or of the popular economy, do not have a stable salary to resist this moment ... and the quarantine is unbearable ".

The virus affects everyone but the Supreme Pontiff notes that the poor and the discarded are the ones who pay these days and will pay the highest price in the future. Thinking about the difficulties they are enduring at the moment, he says that the time has come to think of a universal salary for the excluded: "Perhaps - writes Pope Francis - the time has come to think of a basic form of universal remuneration that recognizes and give dignity to the noble and irreplaceable tasks you carry out; a wage that is able to guarantee and fulfill that slogan so human and Christian: no worker without rights, "proposes the Pontiff.

Pope Bergoglio speaking of the current economic-financial model in relation to the emergency Coronavirus writes: "I hope that governments understand that the technocratic paradigms (whether they have the State at the center or the market at the center) are not sufficient to face this crisis or other major problems of humanity. Now more than ever - explains the Pontiff - it is the people, the communities, the peoples who must be at the center, united to heal, to heal, to share ".