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Does Government Help or Hinder?: Market Failures Justify Public Aid |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / COMMENTARY |
| Author: Julianne Malveaux |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/1999 |
| Size: 1,767 Words, 11,382 Characters |
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It is important to note that affirmative action is a 30-year-old program, while income maintenance programs have been around for more than 60 years. It is also important to note that while African Americans, women, and others who had been locked out of education, employment, and federal contracting are beneficiaries of affirmative action, African Americans were historically excluded from receiving public assistance in the South because cheap labor supported the agrarian system there until its modernization.
There is something artificial, then, about linking affirmative action with public assistance, yet the ideological divide among African-American liberals and conservatives focuses on these issues, which are laden with racial symbolism. Why? I think conservatives are too trusting of ma...
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...specially in cases like environmental protection, health and safety regulation, affirmative action, and, yes, public assistance. In intervening, in my opinion, government does more good than harm. And, in the latter two cases, it takes race into consideration in a far more benign way than it did when it enforced the racial exclusionary laws that are the basis of existing racial economic gaps.
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