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Martin Luther King Jr Dreamed of a Society Without Poverty. We Can Achieve It.
Martin Luther King Jr once said that there’s “nothing but a lack of social vision to prevent us from paying an adequate wage to every American citizen.” Decades after his assassination, we can realize his vision of an economically just society.