ISBN:
1594037256
,
9781594037252
Language:
English
Pages:
205 pages
,
24 cm
Edition:
1. American ed.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.896/073
Keywords:
African Americans / Government policy
;
African Americans / Social conditions / 21st century
;
African Americans / Economic conditions / 21st century
;
Liberalism / United States
;
Social mobility / United States
;
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Civil Rights
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations
;
Politik
;
Schwarze. USA
;
Wirtschaft
;
Schwarze
;
Wirtschaftliche Lage
;
Soziale Situation
;
Sozialpolitik
;
United States / Social policy
;
USA
;
USA
;
USA
;
Schwarze
;
Soziale Situation
;
USA
;
Schwarze
;
Wirtschaftliche Lage
;
USA
;
Sozialpolitik
Abstract:
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"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [177]-192) and index
,
Black man in the White House -- Culture matters -- The enemy within -- Mandating unemployment -- Educational freedom -- Affirmative discrimination
