Near the end of Martin Luther King Jr.’s life, he turned his attention to fighting poverty and became convinced that "the simplest approach will prove to be the most effective," he wrote in " Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos Or Community? " "[T]he solution to poverty is to abolish it directly by a now widely discussed measure: the guaranteed income."
Over half a century later, one in eight Americans (38.1 million people) are still living below the poverty line, according to the Census Bureau . Millions more jobs threatened by automation and artificial intelligence , yet MLK’s notion […]
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