Why is it that so many efforts by liberals to lift the black underclass not
only fail, but often harm the intended beneficiaries?
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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 school choice out of a mistaken belief that charter schools and
voucher programs harm the traditional public schools that most low-income
students attend.
In theory these efforts are intended to help the poor—and
poor minorities in particular. In practice they become massive barriers to
moving forward.
Please Stop Helping Us lays bare these
counterproductive results. People of goodwill want to see more black
socioeconomic advancement, but in too many instances the current methods and
approaches aren’t working. Acknowledging this is an important first step.
only fail, but often harm the intended beneficiaries?
amzn.to/1ny90ZL
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 school choice out of a mistaken belief that charter schools and
voucher programs harm the traditional public schools that most low-income
students attend.
In theory these efforts are intended to help the poor—and
poor minorities in particular. In practice they become massive barriers to
moving forward.
Please Stop Helping Us lays bare these
counterproductive results. People of goodwill want to see more black
socioeconomic advancement, but in too many instances the current methods and
approaches aren’t working. Acknowledging this is an important first step.
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