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The Black Boom (New Threats to Freedom Series) by Jason L. Riley, Wilfred Reilly, Juan A. Williams is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Black Boom (New Threats to Freedom Series) about?
Economic inequality continues to be one of America's most hotly debated topics. Still, there has been relatively little discussion of the fact that black-white gaps in joblessness, income, poverty and other measures were shrinking before the pandemic. Why was it happening, and why did this phenomenon go unacknowledged by so much media? In The Black Boom , Jason L. Riley—acclaimed Wall Street Journal columnist and senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute—digs into the data and concludes that the economic lives of black people improved significantly under policies put into place during the Trump administration. To acknowledge as much is not to endorse the 45th president but to champion policies that achieve a clear moral objective shared by most Americans. Riley argues that before the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020, the economic fortunes of blacks improved under Trump to an extent unseen under Obama and unseen going back several generations. Black unemployment and poverty reached historic lows, and black wages increased faster than white wages. Less inequality is something that everyone wants, but disapproval of Trump's personality and methods too often skewed the media's appraisal of
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- Author
- Jason L. Riley, Wilfred Reilly, Juan A. Williams
- Publisher
- Templeton Press
- Published
- 2022
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781599475905
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Social Science, Political Science
- Rating
- 4.5 / 5 (111 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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