Please stop helping us
Subtitle: how liberals make it harder for Blacks to succeed
By: Jason L. Riley
Edition: First American edition.
Publisher: Encounter Books
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 205
ISBN-13: 9781594037252
Subjects: Government policy; Social mobility; Social conditions; Economic conditions; Social policy; Liberalism; African Americans
Description: 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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages [177]-192) and index.
Table of contents: title: Black man in the White House; title: Culture matters; title: The enemy within; title: Mandating unemployment; title: Educational freedom; title: Affirmative discrimination.