Articles tagged with: Martin Luther King

The day after the MLK holiday, and Bob Herbert of the New York Times has an op-ed on King, concluding that King’s “long campaign for economic justice has been all but forgotten.”
The irony is that Herbert seems to have forgotten King’s emphasis on guaranteed income in addition to jobs. Here are the last few paragraphs.
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Will 30 million Americans demand income security?
Official unemployment is now 9.5 percent, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. As reported in the New York Times:
The American economy lost 467,000 jobs in June and the unemployment rate edged up to 9.5 percent in a sobering indication that the most painful downturn since the Great Depression [...]

Ending welfare, providing income security for all.
Welfare rolls are increasing, according to the Wall Street Journal, and food stamp use is increasing even faster. The facts are only part of the story.
A few key sentences from the Journal article:
Twenty-three of the 30 largest states, which account for more than 88% of the nation’s total population, [...]

Paygo, budget deficits, and income security
Politicians are talking about paygo, and President Obama endorsed the concept a few days ago. Why not? It purportedly worked in the 90s, when President Clinton and the Republican Congress cut government spending and produced a budget surplus.
It’s a simple rule: New spending legislation must include the cuts to pay [...]

Health care reform and income security
President Obama is in Green Bay today as part of his push for health care reform.
A story on the front page of the Washington Post has the following paragraph near the end:
Richard Cooper, professor of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, says he thinks the variations identified by the Dartmouth [...]

Ending hunger requires income security for all
A new book reports that 35 million Americans go hungry every day. It’s Breadline USA: The Hidden Scandal of American Hunger and How to Fix It.
Here’s a quote from the author, Sasha Abramsky:
“The failures of our policies that led to this epidemic of hunger and poverty are evident [...]

Sonia Sotomayor and income security for all
Sonia Sotomayor has become a household name since President Obama announced her as his pick for the Supreme Court.
Her life story is truly remarkable: Puerto Rican parents, growing up in the South Bronx, the death of her father when she was young, her mother working two jobs to support [...]

The economic crisis demands income security for all.
Sooner or later, our elected officials and other “leaders” will have to acknowledge that conventional political and economic approaches are not working. Conventional policies cannot work.
A panel of prominent economists and scholars recently discussed the economic crises and some of the problems with the policies our government is [...]

To save capitalism, income security for all is imperative.
That phrase, “saved capitalism,” is one many historians use to describe Franklin Roosevelt’s actions in response to the Great Depression. We got Social Security; the FDIC, to insure bank deposits; the SEC, to protect investors and restore confidence in financial markets; and other government agencies and programs.
Roosevelt [...]

Income security for all is the best and fastest way to fix or heal the economy.
But first:
Are you tired of news about “the economy”? When you listen to the people on TV and radio – the reporters, commentators, and authors; the bankers, CEOs, and economists; and the politicians, too – do you sometimes wonder if [...]