In Martin Luther King Jr. s 1967 book
Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community? the civil rights leader discussed how to best address poverty in the United States. I am now convinced that the simplest approach will prove to be the most effective the solution to poverty is to abolish it directly by a now widely discussed measure: the guaranteed income, he wrote.
King was not the first to propose a guaranteed income; political philosophers from Montesque to Thomas Paine also penned their support for what is often referred to as universal basic income. And the idea was recently re-popularized by former Democratic presidential candidate and current New York City mayoral candidate Andrew Yang.
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By Taikein Cooper, Jesús Gerena, Valaryee Mitchell and Tyonka Perkins Rimawi
How many times can we say that 2020 has been a year unlike any other? We remain fearful of the pandemic. Uneasiness about a bleak economic outlook due to declining employment and consumer spending persists. Many of our neighbors have been left wondering if they can put food on the table or if they will have a place to live.
Imagine if none of us had to worry about our hunger, homeless or recessions because we were guaranteed a minimum income? When millions of Americans suddenly were thrust into poverty at the onset of the pandemic, many more families and children were vulnerable to conditions we typically only associate with low income. In other words, the pandemic reinforced that these issues only are symptoms of the real disease â poverty.