Martin Luther King Jr. Had Another Dream: A Universal Basic Income for All Americans

Martin Luther King Jr. Had Another Dream: A Universal Basic Income for All Americans

The editorial board at The Washington Post rankled some on Sunday night when they published a short essay making the questionable assertion that Martin Luther King, Jr. was a “conservative.” However, in the last year of his life, Dr. King advocated for the very “non-conservative” prospect of a guaranteed annual income for all Americans.

From Quartz : In 1967, the year before he was assassinated, King published a book titled, Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? In it, King held up a basic income as a solution to the poverty that afflicted people of all races in […]

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