A Negative Take on Affirmative Action

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jun 25, 2014

Jason Riley, member of the Wall Street Journal editorial board, Fox News contributor and the author of Please Stop Helping Us: How Liberals Make It Harder for Blacks to Succeed (Encounter Books, 2014), says minimum-wage and affirmative-action laws are counter-productive and end up hurting the people they're intended to help.

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