Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-131) and index.
Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Measuring the Social Debt; 2. Viewing Social Policy Through the Restitution Lens; 3. How to Pay the Debt; 4. Creative Antitrust: Subsidized Social Divestiture; 5. Narrow Inequalities in Income and Wealth; 6. Affirmative Action, Competitiveness, and Productivity; 7. Invest in Reducing Crime; 8. Discourage Immature Parenting and Welfare Dependency; 9. Invest in Persuasive Communications; 10. The Social Debt and Tax Reform; 11. Security, Productivity, Competitiveness, Economic Strategy, and Restitution; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index.
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Richard America here redefines the complex problems of racial economic injustice, poverty, inequality, and lagging competitiveness and productivity in the United States. In a sure-to-be-controversial analysis, the author argues that there is a true debt owed by White America to Black America, that this debt is significant, and that it has now come due. He estimates the size of Whites' debt to Blacks, shows how that debt came to be, and suggests creative ways of paying it back. This book argues persuasively that the social and racial problems in the United States cannot be solved until we ackno.
Paying the social debt.
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Income distribution-- United States.
Social conflict-- United States.
Income distribution.
Social conditions
Social conflict.
Social policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Ethnic Studies-- African American Studies.