Guest Editorial

“True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar….it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

Today’s TV commentaries about economic justice may seem new to many of the younger generation, but in his December 1964 speech “Accepting the New York City Medallion [the highest civilian award given by New York City], Martin Luther King, Jr., addressed the issue:

“In both Norway and Sweden, whose economies are literally dwarfed by the size of our affluence and the extent of our technology, they have no unemployment and no slums: their...