So what, exactly, was the reverend's economic dream? In short, King wanted the government to eradicate poverty by providing every American a guaranteed, middle-class income—an idea that, while light-years beyond the realm of mainstream political conversation today, had actually come into vogue by the late 1960s.
~ Jordan Weissmann, "Remembering Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Solution to Poverty," The Atlantic, January 20, 2014
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