Proposal offered to help disabled workers find work
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration wants to use the power of government purchasing to help increase the number of disabled people in the work force. A proposed Labor Department rule would require...
View ArticleU.S. Supreme Court seems split over affirmative action policy
In a highly contentious argument that ran well past its allotted one hour on Wednesday, the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court clashed over the constitutionality of a university policy that considers...
View ArticleDiversity is ‘pressing’ and ‘necessary’
The Supreme Court made it known that if given another bite at the affirmative action apple, there is a very real possibility that programs that were created to bolster diversity could be rendered...
View ArticleAffirmative action survives, under tougher standard
the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court in Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin gave the lower court another crack at deciding whether the school’s policy passes constitutional muster — but not...
View ArticleEmployers could trip on new Affirmative Action rules
The new rules attempt to create jobs for a segment of disadvantaged workers, but they could have some unintended legal consequences for employers.
View ArticleAffirmative action ripples reach same-sex marriage
The recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling upholding a state law barring the consideration of race in public university admission decisions is having an immediate effect on a set of closely watched appeals...
View ArticleOp-Ed: Supreme Court gives boost to affirmative action programs
Today the U.S. Supreme Court held by a 4 to 3 vote that the University of Texas’s use of racial preferences in undergraduate admissions did not violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth...
View ArticleFederal judge upholds affirmative action at Harvard
Harvard University does not discriminate against Asian Americans in its admissions process, a federal judge ruled Tuesday in a lawsuit that reignited a national debate over affirmative action.
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