Melvin Carter

Melvin Carter is the mayor of St. Paul, Minn.

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11 U.S. Mayors Advocate for Guaranteed Income

In 1967, against a backdrop of massive civil unrest, Dr. Martin Luther King wrote Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community? and called for the immediate abolition of poverty. In the richest nation...

By Michael D. Tubbs , Chokwe Antar Lumumba , Melvin Carter , Ras J. Baraka , Aja Brown , Eric Garcetti , Adrian Perkins , Libby Schaaf , Stephen Benjamin , Keisha Lance Bottoms and Victoria R. Woodards
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