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Martin Luther King defends the guaranteed income

In the book "Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?" King writes that "the solution to poverty is to abolish it directly" through "the guaranteed income." He criticizes programs that attacked poverty indirectly.

Source: The Seattle Times (book excerpt)

Martin Luther King Jr. in 1964.
Martin Luther King Jr. in 1964. Public domain

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