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Related: About this forumClinton Changed Affirmative Action to Make It Less Useful to Blacks & Women
Set-Aside Programs Set Aside
BY By STEVEN A. HOLMES
Sometimes it's done for political reasons, sometimes for legal considerations. For whatever reason, the Clinton Administration's rightward list continues.
Last week the Justice Department announced proposals -- including a two-year moratorium on new set-aside programs -- that would make it more difficult for Federal agencies to steer contracts to minority companies only. The action was forced by a 1995 Supreme Court ruling limiting the Government's power to enact race-based affirmative action programs. Critics say the proposals go beyond what the Court required.
"It's a bone that they're throwing to conservatives," said Laura Murphy, director of the Washington office of the American Civil Liberties Union. STEVEN A. HOLMES
The New York Times
BY By STEVEN A. HOLMES
Sometimes it's done for political reasons, sometimes for legal considerations. For whatever reason, the Clinton Administration's rightward list continues.
Last week the Justice Department announced proposals -- including a two-year moratorium on new set-aside programs -- that would make it more difficult for Federal agencies to steer contracts to minority companies only. The action was forced by a 1995 Supreme Court ruling limiting the Government's power to enact race-based affirmative action programs. Critics say the proposals go beyond what the Court required.
"It's a bone that they're throwing to conservatives," said Laura Murphy, director of the Washington office of the American Civil Liberties Union. STEVEN A. HOLMES
The New York Times
Clinton wanted to further roll back rights for minorities:
The Sunday Times (London)
March 19, 1995, Sunday
US blacks fear race test case
BY: By Christopher Goodwin, Los Angeles, and James Adams, Washington
snip
The groundswell has stunned leaders of minority and women's groups. Black organisations say black children are still three times more likely to live in poverty than white children. ''If minorities and women feel they're being left out, we're setting the stage for internal strife that could lead to an American Bosnia,'' insisted Arthur Fletcher, a black businessman who helped to enforce the Civil Rights Act in 1969.
Clinton wants affirmative action based not on race or gender but on economics, so that the poor as a group would be given assistance.
Last week, however, 90 women's leaders marched on the White House demanding that existing laws remain untouched.
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and Clinton wanted to change Affirmative Action to Make It Omit Areas With High Unemployment:
WALL STREET JOURNAL
June 2, 1995, Friday
LABOR-SURPLUS PREFERENCES ENDANGERED BY CLINTON'S AFFIRMATIVE-ACTION REVIEW
By: BY MICHAEL K FRISBY
Michael Frisby article reports that President Clinton's review of affirmative-action programs is expected to recommend that the labor-surplus preference program be ended or substantially revamped; the Labor Dept gives the labor-surplus designation to areas with high unemployment, and in turn, federal agencies set aside contracts that are earmarked for these communities; currently, 1,528 counties are labor-surplus areas (M)
June 2, 1995, Friday
LABOR-SURPLUS PREFERENCES ENDANGERED BY CLINTON'S AFFIRMATIVE-ACTION REVIEW
By: BY MICHAEL K FRISBY
Michael Frisby article reports that President Clinton's review of affirmative-action programs is expected to recommend that the labor-surplus preference program be ended or substantially revamped; the Labor Dept gives the labor-surplus designation to areas with high unemployment, and in turn, federal agencies set aside contracts that are earmarked for these communities; currently, 1,528 counties are labor-surplus areas (M)
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Clinton Changed Affirmative Action to Make It Less Useful to Blacks & Women (Original Post)
amborin
Feb 2016
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Perogie
(687 posts)1. Doesn't matter
How much documents you show Hillary supporters. They won't believe anything.
You know Hillary has evolved. Anything she did in the past is forgiven and forgotten.
MisterP
(23,730 posts)2. or "it's racist to even mention it!"
nc4bo
(17,651 posts)4. We'll be forgotten about again. They all tend to forget about us.
Just gotta get through this little sticky, conflicting time, get what's needed then amnesia kicks in.
Sure hope folks remember it.