Fact Checks/ReviewThe claimSays about universal basic income, "Thomas Paine was for it at our founding ... Martin Luther King, champion in the ‘60s, called it a guaranteed minimum income for all Americans… It passed the U.S. House of Representatives twice in 1971."RatingMostly TrueReviewed by PolitiFact ↗Original fact check ↗Search related fact checks →Use this record in your application ↗Report a correction ↗