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Rustin and Randolph's Freedom Budget called for both a federal jobs guarantee and a guaranteed income for those unable to work. As head of the Full Employment Action Council, Scott King continued the civil rights struggle to expand the welfare state in the 1970s. The Economics of Freedom In his interview with Daniel Zamora Vargas and Anton Jäger for their new book, Welfare for Markets: A Global History of Basic Income, Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins suggests that Martin Luther King Jr. "moved away from the welfare state as a solution to Black unemployment" in the last years of his life ["Why These Leftists Oppose Free Money", September 4/11]. [Extracted from the article]