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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Riley, Jason L., 1971-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Government policy.

African Americans.

African Americans--Social condtions--21st century.

African Americans--Economic conditions--21st century.

Liberalism.

African Americans--Economic conditions.

United States--Social policy.

United States.

Social policy.

Liberalism--United States.

Social mobility--United States.

Social mobility.

Physical Description:

205 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First American edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Encounter Books, 2014.

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.

Contents:

01 Black Man in the White House 7

02 Culture Matters 35

03 The Enemy Within 59

04 Mandating Unemployment 85

05 Educational Freedom 111

06 Affirmative Discrimination 141.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781594037252

1594037256

OCLC:

858358749