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Please stop helping us, how liberals make it harder for blacks to succeed, Jason L. Riley

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

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non fiction

Please stop helping us

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Jason L. Riley

how liberals make it harder for blacks to succeed

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 of racial preferences"--, Provided by publisher