NEW YORK — Melinda French Gates is already one of the biggest philanthropic supporters of gender equity in the United States and is now poised to put another $12.5 billion toward intractable problems like closing the gender pay gap and increasing women’s political participation, her grantees hope. The additional funds come as French Gates announced […]
There are lots of things to hate about Biden’s tax proposal. In fact, there is nothing to like about it at all. But the most interesting aspect of it is not any one proposal–all of them are terrible–but the rationale put forth by the Department of the Treasury: it is all about Equity. Redistribution of […]
A university bureaucrat whose job depends on racial polarization is finding out that publicity is a two-edged sword. Smearing the British royal family, and the princess of Wales in particular, with conspiracy theories might make for fans on the left, but the saner part of the world’s population has an opinion, too. And the Fox […]
Last week the Washington state Supreme Court ruled that people wanting to become lawyers no longer have to pass the Bar Exam. The traditional Bar Exam will now be just one of three options in the state for those who seek to become licensed. The Supreme Court of Washington on Friday approved several new ways […]
Even seemingly obscure federal agencies are working to turn out more voters under President Joe Biden’s executive order on elections. The Railroad Retirement Board’s strategic plan includes calls for distributing flyers and posters; keeping metrics on directing individuals to the federal voter registration website Vote.gov; and working with an “equity team” to boost voting among […]
President Biden‘s push to end racial and gender disparities in the job market by requiring employers to divulge workers’ salaries could backfire and result in all workers earning less than they did before everyone knew how their pay stacked up, several recent studies have found. Mr. Biden has proposed forcing federal contractors and subcontractors to […]
I had never heard of such a thing. It certainly is so juvenile a title that it had to come from this administration and, sure enough, it popped up this past summer. In a long, rambling manifesto on environmental and “climate resilience” (vurt da furk?) issues last summer, they announced the establishment of this superfluous […]
Utah’s governor signed a bill into law Tuesday that makes the state the latest to prohibit diversity training, hiring and inclusion programs at universities and in state government. The measure signed by Spencer Cox, a Republican who previously said he supported the idea, had cleared the state House and Senate by wide, party-line majorities. Headed […]
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