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02100aam a2200361Ii 4500 001 4BDB2C741E5011E6B2133BA4DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20160520010127 008 160119t20152014nyu b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 1594038414 020 $a 9781594038419 035 $a (OCoLC)935765172 040 $a CGP $b eng $e rda $c CGP $d OCLCO $d IGA $d SILO 043 $a n-us--- 050 4 $a E185.86 $b .R55 2015 082 04 $a 305.896/073 $2 23 100 1 $a Riley, Jason $q (Jason L.), $e author. 245 10 $a Please stop helping us : $b how liberals make it harder for blacks to succeed / $c Jason L. Riley. 250 $a First paperback edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Encounter Books, $c 2015. 300 $a 205 pages ; $c 23 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-192) and index. 505 0 $a Black man in the White House -- Culture matters -- The enemy within -- Mandating unemployment -- Educational freedom -- Affirmative discrimination. 520 $a 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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a African Americans $x Government policy. 650 0 $a African Americans $x 21st century. $x 21st century. 650 0 $a African Americans $x 21st century. $x 21st century. 650 0 $a Liberalism $x United States. 650 0 $a Social mobility $x United States. 650 0 $a United States $x Social policy. 941 $a 1 952 $l EZPE755 $d 20160520010939.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=4BDB2C741E5011E6B2133BA4DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search