Many of us have extolled the benefits to low- and middle-income households of President Trump’s tax cut, and there’s a marvelous Wall Street Journal piece by Jason Riley, “How the Trump Tax Cuts and Economic Boom Lifted Black Americans.” This is a direct rebuttal to the continuing, fact-free cognitive dissonance spewed out by President Biden and his allies that the tax cuts only benefited the rich.

That’s simply not true — factually not true.

Here’s one fact: Real median income for a typical family of four increased by a record $6,000 after the tax cuts and before the pandemic. In fact, in 2019 alone, family income jumped $4,400, as my friend Kevin Hasset predicted. But Mr. Riley focuses laser-like on how black economic fortunes improved due to lower taxes and lighter regulation.

He notes that between 2017 and 2019, median household incomes grew by 15.4 percent among blacks, and only 11.5 percent among whites.

Mr. Riley cites a Goldman Sachs study showing the pay for those at the lower end of the wage distribution rose by nearly double the rate of pay for the upper end.

During the first 11 quarters of the Trump presidency, wages for workers at the bottom rose more than twice as fast as during President Obama’s second term. Less-educated workers saw their wages rise at triple the rate during Mr. Obama”s second term.

As Mr. Riley points out, the benefits to low- and middle-income households cover a disproportionate number of blacks. They tend to be less well-educated and they are over-represented in lower-wage retail, health care, and transportation industries. So the rise in black median household incomes and the 50-year low in black unemployment following the Trump tax cuts is highly significant.

Quoting Mr. Riley, “The story of black economic advancement in the Trump years deserves wider notice.”

So I’m going to make a separate but related point: It is rising prosperity and opportunity that solves poverty, not expanded welfare — especially welfare that ends workfare.

There is no economic advancement from not working. That is why the Biden program is so misguided. And, yes: Save America. Kill the Bill.

More broadly, it is economic growth, not redistribution and racial preferences, that bring people out of poverty.

This is why President Biden’s criteria for who serves on the high court after Stephen Breyer is so completely, utterly wrong. Referencing legal scholar Jonathan Turley, Mr. Biden’s pledge to select the next justice first and foremost on the basis sex and race is unconstitutional.

The court has found that racial preferences are unconstitutional for public education and unlawful for businesses. Mr. Biden is promoting a quota system that has been out of date for more than 40 years. If his candidates are the most meritorious, fine, but to single out black race and female sex as principal criteria is lawfully and morally wrong.

Diversity may be one thing, but excluding all male or non-black nominees regardless of their credentials is simply over the edge. As Mr. Turley points out, even Biden policies that prioritize black farmers for pandemic relief was struck down by the courts, as “raw racial discrimination.”

So my point is a simple one — a rising tide lifts all boats. Indeed, the Trump program of tax cuts and regulatory reduction so opened the economy and filled it with new opportunities that it was the bottom half that out-performed the top half. And in that bottom half, those benefiting the most were African Americans and other minority groups.

Let me say it again: Growth, not redistribution or racial preferences, is the key to solving poverty and reducing inequality in our free enterprise capitalist system.

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From Mr. Kudlow’s broadcast on Fox Business Network.