A $2,000 Check Is a Good Start, but Struggling Americans Need $2,000 Every Month

A $2,000 Check Is a Good Start, but Struggling Americans Need $2,000 Every Month

Martin Luther King Jr.(Photo by Unseen Histories.) Dr. King taught us that direct cash payments are a smart response to poverty and mass unemployment. In this crisis, we need to heed that call.

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s posthumous message to America came in a Look magazine article published shortly after the civil rights leader’s assassination, on April 4, 1968. In it, King wrote, “We need an economic bill of rights. This would guarantee a job to all people who want to work and are able to work. It would also guarantee an income for all who are […]

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