Government presumption of racial disadvantage
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/12/18/minority-business-programs-racial-disadvantage/
... The categories of disadvantaged minorities were drawn up in the early 1970s with little research or debate — and sometimes based on naked politics — creating a patchwork in which some programs presume a minority group to be disadvantaged while others do not.
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> There was “never really a logic to it,” said John Skrentny, a sociology professor at the University of California at San Diego who has researched the origins of the federal government’s presumptions. “It’s a lot of important policy built on a house of cards.”
...Makes sense to revisit the criteria for what constitute "disadvantaged" every now and then.
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Cant read it. What are the categories?
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