As MLK noted, if a country stops counting its unemployed, it forgets them
<p>Three weeks before he was killed, Martin Luther King Jr. stood up in a high school gym in Michigan and argued with a number.</p><p>It was March of 1968.
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<p>Three weeks before he was killed, Martin Luther King Jr. stood up in a high school gym in Michigan and argued with a number.</p><p>It was March of 1968. The government said unemployment in the Black community was 8.8%. King said it was almost twice that.</p><p>Not because anybody was cooking the books.</p><p>The country felt good about jobs that spring.
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- <p>Three weeks before he was killed, Martin Luther King Jr. stood up in a high school gym in Michigan and argued with a number.</p><p>It was March of 1968.
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As MLK noted, if a country stops counting its unemployed, it forgets them
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