In his 1967 book, Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community? , Martin Luther King, Jr. laid out a vision of a country where poverty was abolished—not incrementally, but with sweeping finality. Guaranteeing jobs wouldn’t be enough, he argued: The government would have to guarantee an annual income.
More than 50 years later, the concept of a universal basic income has grown as closely associated with job-killing robots as civil rights. But the need to explore regular, unconditional cash payments as a means of achieving racial and economic justice is more urgent than ever, says Mayor Michael Tubbs, […]
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