The U.S. Commission on Civil RightsU.S. Government Printing Office, 1990 - 96 páginas |
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Página 53 - William Julius Wilson, The Truly Disadvantaged (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987), pp.
Página 64 - Thus in such neighborhoods the chances are overwhelming that children will seldom interact on a sustained basis with people who are employed or with families that have a sustained breadwinner.
Página 16 - Appraise Federal laws and policies with respect to the denial of equal protection of the laws because of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin, or in the administration of justice...
Página 1 - US SENATE, SUBCOMMITTEE ON THE CONSTITUTION, COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY, Washington, DC. The subcommittee met, pursuant to notice, at 2:10 pm, in room SD-226, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Hon.
Página 55 - If the policies and employment patterns of the present continue, it is likely that the demographic opportunity of the 1990s will be missed and that by the year 2000 the problems of minority unemployment, crime, and dependency will be worse than they are today. Without substantial adjustments, blacks and Hispanics will have a smaller fraction of the jobs of the year 2000 than they have today...
Página 20 - The Congress finds that voting discrimination against citizens of language minorities is pervasive and national in scope. Such minority citizens are from environments in which the dominant language is other than English. In addition they have been denied equal educational opportunities by State and local governments, resulting in severe disabilities and continuing illiteracy in the English language. The Congress further finds that, where State and local officials conduct elections only in English,...
Página 21 - ... effectively excluded from participation in the electoral process. Among other factors, the denial of the right to vote of such minority group citizens is ordinarily directly related to the unequal educational opportunities afforded them, resulting in high illiteracy and low voting participation. The Congress declares that, in order to enforce the guarantees of the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments to the United States Constitution, it is necessary to eliminate such discrimination by prohibiting...
Página 63 - In fact, given the historic patterns of behavior by employers, it is more reasonable to expect that they will bid up the wages of the relatively smaller numbers of white labor force entrants, seek to substitute capital for labor in many service occupations, and/or move job sites to the faster growing, more youthful parts of the country, or perhaps of the world.
Página 16 - ... (2) study and collect information concerning legal developments constituting a denial of equal protection of laws under the Constitution...
Página 65 - If current demographic and economic trends continue. American business will have to hire a million new workers a year who can't read, write, or count.