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Please Stop Helping Us How Liberals Make It Harder for Blacks to Succeed

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ISBN-10: 1594038414

ISBN-13: 9781594038419

Edition: 2014

Authors: Jason L. Riley

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Why is it that so many efforts by liberals to lift the black underclass not only fail, but often harm the intended beneficiaries?In "Please Stop Helping Us," Jason L. Riley examines how well-intentioned welfare programs are in fact holding black Americans back. Minimum-wage laws may lift earnings for people who are already employed, but they price a disproportionate number of blacks out of the labor force. Affirmative action in higher education is intended to address past discrimination, but the result is fewer black college graduates than would otherwise exist. And so it goes with everything from soft-on-crime laws, which make black neighborhoods more dangerous, to policies that limit…    
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Book details

List price: $20.99
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Encounter Books
Publication date: 1/5/2016
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 216
Size: 8.16" wide x 9.00" long x 0.57" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English