The simplest, most revolutionary approach to ending poverty

The simplest, most revolutionary approach to ending poverty

Actor Daniel Craig as James Bond, holding a large automatic weapon. In the last years of his life, frustrated by the failure of the civil rights movement to change the day-to-day financial circumstances of Black Americans, Martin Luther King Jr. turned much of his focus to questions of economic justice, and increasingly landed on one possible option. In 1966 testimony in front of the US Senate, King declared, “I am now convinced that the simplest approach will prove to be the most revolutionary — the guaranteed annual income.”

More than 55 years later, King’s dream of a guaranteed income is […]

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