FDR's Attack on Blacks

How the minimum wage and FDR's agricultural policies particularly hurt black men.

This morning, I was in a Zoom discussion with an economist who is one of the leading experts on the minimum wage. His data showed that the minimum wage particularly hurts black youths. The late Walter Williams often made that point.

I pointed out to the economist that that observation was made as early as 1944. Gunnar Myrdal, the Swedish economist who wa…