Janet Yellen says US economy is unfair to Black Americans in MLK Day speech
by Edward Helmore and agencies from on (#5V3TK)
Dr King knew that economic injustice was bound up in the larger injustice he fought against,' says treasury secretary
The treasury secretary, Janet Yellen, marked Martin Luther King Day with a speech acknowledging that the US economy has never worked fairly for Black Americans or, really, for any American of color".
Interpreting the late civil rights leader's I Have a Dream speech, Yellen said: Dr King knew that economic injustice was bound up in the larger injustice he fought against."
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