MLK guaranteed income policy speech by Martin Luther King Jr
Civic Power & Policy

The Policy King Wanted: Guaranteed Income

Martin Luther King Jr believed the civil rights movement could not stop at legal equality. In the final years of his life, he argued that political rights alone could not eliminate poverty if economic systems continued to produce deep inequality. His speeches increasingly focused on jobs, wages, housing, and the distribution of opportunity in American society. The argument was simple but profound: freedom without economic foundations is fragile freedom.

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