<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:10pt"><div><a href="http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/18757-black-america-and-a-new-freedom-budget#_edn10">http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/18757-black-america-and-a-new-freedom-budget#_edn10</a></div><div> </div><div><font>"<font face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif">A Freedom Budget for All Americans," published in 1966 by the A. Philip Randolph Institute, demanded that the federal government put in place policies and programs that would eliminate poverty within ten years. Its authors demonstrated with clear and realistic assumptions about government taxes and revenues that this could be accomplished easily. The "Freedom Budget" was a direct descendant of the historic 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. The organizers of the march and the architects of the "Freedom Budget" - people like A.
Philip Randolph, Bayard Rustin and Martin Luther King Jr. - understood that ending poverty, achieving full employment, guaranteeing incomes, winning higher wages and providing good schools, national health care and decent housing would not happen without tremendous struggle, one that challenged not only the federal government but the basic structure of a capitalist economy. Their sensibility was democratic and socialist; it envisioned a society both egalitarian and controlled by the people themselves. ..........</font></font></div></div></body></html>