Obama’s Tragic Legacy for Black Americans

Adding to harmful policies on school vouchers and the minimum wage: a plan to free 6,000 federal inmates.

As Kanye West might say, I’m starting to wonder if the president much cares about the well-being of poor blacks.

Mr. West was remarking on the George W. Bush administration’s response to Hurricane Katrina, a natural disaster, but the current administration seems keen on facilitating man-made varieties. At the urging of labor unions, President Obama has pushed for higher minimum wages that price a disproportionate percentage of blacks out of the labor force. At the urging of teachers unions, he has fought voucher programs that give ghetto children access to better schools.

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This piece originally appeared in The Wall Street Journal