Racial bias

Alyssa Place
April 16, 2021 12:09 PM

This week’s top stories explore how employers are attempting to reduce bias in the benefits they offer to help employees succeed.

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Alyssa Place
February 26, 2021 11:13 AM

Benefits, professional development opportunities and unconscious bias training are all important tools to address workplace diversity.

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Alyssa Place
September 2, 2020 5:29 AM

As employers grapple with creating more diverse and inclusive workplaces, bringing awareness to how microaggressions ostracize their employees is a critical step.

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By Marin Wolf and Kim Bhasin
September 1, 2020 9:53 AM

As many as a half-dozen companies, including Wells Fargo and Delta Air Lines, have said they’ve adopted workforce quotas in recent months.

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Neil Haggerty
August 23, 2020 9:00 PM

The Federal Reserve could ease capital rules, foster the creation of special-purpose banks and take other steps to strengthen minority communities and businesses without legislation being sought in Congress — if it has the will to do so, experts say.

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A sign advising of social distancing measures in place stands on display at the entrance to a Pick n Pay Stores Ltd. supermarket in Johannesburg, South Africa, on Monday, May 11, 2020.
Kimberly Ellison-Taylor
July 29, 2020 10:43 AM

With economic uncertainty, a pandemic, and concerns around race and equity topping daily headlines, existing initiatives to transform and innovate across people, processes and technology have become more amplified.

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By Laura Davison
July 16, 2020 9:47 AM

A study has found that the last batch of stimulus checks arrived at wealthier, White households more quickly than to those of Blacks and Hispanics.

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Gregory W. Meeks
April 20, 2020 9:56 AM

Minorities are often hit harder financially during a crisis, but if regulators move forward on revamping the Community Reinvestment Act, they’ll only make matters worse.

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