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A new report from the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies has found that the U.S. public workforce system may be perpetuating racial inequities in employment for Black Americans.
The United States has a racially and ethnically diverse population. [1] At the federal level, race and ethnicity have been categorized separately. The most recent United States census recognized five racial categories (White, Black, Native American/Alaska Native, Asian, and Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander), as well as people who belong to two or more of the racial categories.
Thus, the racial wage gap is just one aspect of inequality in the United States. A criticism of the racial wage gap has been noted by a few scholars: the racial wage gap fails to account for the number of people of a specific race that are unemployed. [6] [21] Examining median incomes does not reflect the growing racial disparity in joblessness ...
The U.S. population grew only 0.1% from the previous year before. [90] The United States' population has grown by less than one million people for the first time since 1937, with the lowest numeric growth since at least 1900, when the Census Bureau began yearly population estimates. [90]
Racial profiling is defined as "any police-initiated action that relies on the race, ethnicity, or national origin, rather than the behavior of an individual or information that leads the police to a particular individual who has been identified as being, or having been, engaged in criminal activity."
Black and Latina child-care workers are paid less and given fewer leadership roles than their co-workers, despite making up much of the early childhood workforce.
Yahoo Finance’s Denitsa Tsekova breaks down the demographics and the rate at which workers are quitting.
Requires agencies to diligently recruit a diverse base of foster and adoptive parents to better reflect the racial and ethnic makeup of children in out of home care These mandates apply to all entities dealing with foster/adoptive placement and recruitment who receive federal funding, and are requirements for receiving such funding. [ 1 ]