Barbara Alexander
Western Governors University
WGU Student ID# 000253550
Employment Equality In The U.S. – More Work Needs To Be Done
In 1964 the United States Congress passed Public Law 88-352 (78 Stat. 241). This law became known as the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The the remnants of a disgraceful history of racial segregation and overt discrimination made it necessary for the government to provide necessary protections for those groups that were the target of this pernicious social ill. Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 law provided protection from discrimination on the basis of race in hiring, promoting, …show more content…
Particularly overt and implicit is racial discrimination. Discriminatory failures in the hiring stage for racial minorities continues to diminishes the longtime employment opportunities for African-Americans by excluding them long term from the labor market. Recent evidence clearly suggests that both getting hired and remaining employed is particularly more challenging for minorities, especially …show more content…
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