Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. spent the last years of his life fighting poverty in America — stressing that racial struggles cannot be separated from economic ones. In his final book, "Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?" King put forward a radical economic argument, asserting the government should provide all Americans with guaranteed basic income. Martin Luther King Jr. The idea of providing basic income to eliminate poverty spread among economists in the decades after King’s death. It has been re-popularized in recent years as American workers wrestle with income inequality and the rise of technology […]
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