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Please stop helping us : how liberals make it harder for Blacks to succeed / Jason L. Riley.

Summary:

The author believes that "many efforts by liberals to help the black underclass not only fail but often harm the intended beneficiaries. The intentions behind welfare programs may be noble, but in practice they have slowed the self-development that was necessary for other groups to advance. Minimum-wage laws may lift earnings for people who are already employed, but they also have a long history of pricing blacks out of the labor force. Affirmative action in higher education was intended to address past discrimination, but the result is fewer black college graduates ... than would have existed in the absence racial preferences"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781594037252
  • ISBN: 1594037256
  • ISBN: 9781594038419
  • ISBN: 1594038414
  • Physical Description: 205 pages ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First American edition
  • Publisher: New York, New York : Encounter Books, 2014.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-192) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Black man in the White House -- Culture matters -- The enemy within -- Mandating unemployment -- Educational freedom -- Affirmative discrimination.
Subject: African Americans > Government policy.
African Americans > Social conditions > 21st century.
African Americans > Economic conditions > 21st century.
Liberalism > United States.
Social mobility > United States.
United States > Social policy.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Onslow County Public Library.

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Richlands Branch Library 305.896 RIL (Text) 36015000057667 Adult Nonfiction Available -