Toward a Freedom Budget

The situation in Watts erupted in volcanic form because the people there knew or felt that their deep troubles were interlaced with manifest injustice. And this eruptive potential is seething just under the surface in portions of every large city within the United States, awaiting only some slight additional pressure or some unpredictable incitement to propel the explosion.

The very advances in general prosperity and employment, which may breed complacency in some quarters, are multiplying the fundamental pressures by the contrasts which they sharpen. Although unemployment as customarily measured is now said to be lower than at any time within eight years, the crucial fact is that at no time within these eight years has it been le...