To comply with court, federal agency lets White people claim social disadvantage – msn/WaPost

“It’s the latest sign the government is untethering its definition of social disadvantage from broad racial and ethnic classifications, a presumption increasingly besieged by legal challenges. Last year, the Small Business Administration was forced to overhaul a program for minority government contractors and now requires applicants to prove their disadvantage through essays. A Transportation Department program’s use of racial categories also is facing legal scrutiny, while dozens of other federal and state programs meant for minorities face similar threats…

“The shift is part of the ongoing fallout from the Supreme Court’s June 29 ruling against Harvard and the University of North Carolina that upended race-conscious college admissions. Though the high-court ruling — which blasted Harvard’s use of racial categories as “imprecise” and “overbroad” — concerned university admissions, its reasoning weighed heavily in subsequent court decisions barring the use of racial classifications in government programs, including the injunction against the MBDA.”

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Progressive, race-neutral economics will help minority communities

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