The Freedom Budget at 45: Functional Finance and Full Employment

Forty-five years ago, the A. Philip Randolph Institute issued The Freedom Budget, in which a program for economic transformation was proposed that included a job guarantee for everyone ready and willing to work, a guaranteed income for those unable to work or those who should not be working, and a living wage to lift the working poor out of poverty. Such policies were supported by a host of scholars, civic leaders, and institutions, including the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.; indeed, they provided the cornerstones for King's Poor Peoples' Campaign and economic bill of rights. This paper proposes a New Freedom Budget for full employment based on the principles of functional finance. To counter a major obstacle to such a policy program, the paper includes a primer on three paradigms for understanding government budget deficits and the national debt: the deficit hawk, deficit dove, and functional finance perspectives. Finally, some of the benefits of the job guarantee are outlined, including the ways in which the program may serve as a vehicle for a variety of social policies

La crise contemporaine de l'Amérique noire

Si trente après le combat de Martin Luther King pour les droits civiques, les Afro-Américains ont enregistré certains succès politiques, ont joué un rôle non négligeable aux élections présidentielles de 1992, en revanche leur statut social, économique et culturel n'a cessé de se détériorer. Un paradoxe qu'analyse Manning Marable et qui le mène à définir ce qu'il appelle «un projet progressiste noir».Marable Manning, ISM-TI. La crise contemporaine de l'Amérique noire. In: Hommes et Migrations, n°1162-1163, Février-mars 1993. Fragments d'Amérique. Migrants et minorités aux USA. pp. 16-21

2nd Annual Ella Baker Malcolm X Civil Rights Lecture Series 2000

2nd Annual Ella Baker Malcolm X Lecture Series Distinguished Africana Scholars Lecture Series Crisis of the Black World Speaker: Manning Marable Kovens Conference Center, Biscayne Bay Campushttps://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/aads_lectureseries/1033/thumbnail.jp