Please stop helping us

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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"--

subjects: African americans, politics and government,  African americans, social conditions,  African americans, economic conditions,  Liberalism,  Social mobility, united states,  Government policy,  Social mobility,  Social conditions,  Economic conditions,  Social policy,  African Americans,  Social condtions,  POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Civil Rights,  SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations,  nyt:race-and-civil-rights=2014-12-07,  New York Times bestseller,  United states, social policy

Places: United States

Times: 21st century