Stockton, California’s first Black mayor Michael Tubbs, backstage on Bill Maher’s show Real Time with Bill Maher Image Credit: Daniel Lopez Image Source: Flickr In a 1967 speech at Stanford University, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. laid out his case for a basic guaranteed income as a moral imperative for a country of capitalists. King would later more fully develop this idea in his last book Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community in which he remarks: Up to recently we have proceeded from a premise that poverty is a consequence of multiple evils: lack of education […]
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