By Maxine Waters (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) ...This [California anti-affirmative action] initiative is a product of a climate that has nothing to do with affirmative action per se. Unemployment is still high in California. Many manufacturing jobs have fled to Third World countries in search of cheap labor. We've been buffeted by fires and floods and … [Read more...] about “Scapegoating” by Maxine Waters (May-June 1995 P&R Issue)
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Symposium: Affirmative Action Roundtable (May-June 1995 P&R Issue)
(Click here to view the entire P&R issue) The focus of this May/June issue of P&R is affirmative action. The news is far from good, as we all know. Rather than our usual practice of commissioning commentaries, we opted for excerpting already published pieces, since so much good writing has recently appeared on our side of the issue. May/June 1995 issue of Poverty … [Read more...] about Symposium: Affirmative Action Roundtable (May-June 1995 P&R Issue)