MLK's Legacy - Let's Launch a People's Campaign for the Unemployed

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Vision: MLK's Legacy -- Let's Launch a People's Campaign for the Unemployed

With a conservative House trying to box Obama into stymying job creation, we need a dramatic confrontation on behalf of the 27 million who are unemployed or underemployed.

"When Martin Luther King Jr. gave the sermon at the National Cathedral in Washington on March 31, 1968 to highlight the Poor People's Campaign he was organizing for later that spring, unemployment was hovering just under 7 percent—for African Americans. The nationwide average was under 4 percent.

Last week the Labor Department reported unemployment rates that were more than double that—9.4 percent nationally; 15.8 percent for African Americans."

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Posted by Chuck Bell at 7:15 AM