Premier U.S. civil rights agency dismantles tools to fight discrimination

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The episode discusses the dismantling of tools to fight discrimination by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission under President Trump.

As part of a realignment of civil rights enforcement under President Trump, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is seeking to end its annual data collection while also getting rid of a 1979 regulation that allowed employers to take certain steps to address race and gender imbalances revealed by the data. NPR's Andrea Hsu reports. Support NPR and hear every episode of Trump's Terms sponsor-free with NPR+. Sign up at plus.npr.org . See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for sponsorship and to manage your podcast sponsorship preferences. NPR Privacy Policy

People in this episode

Host: Andrea Hsu

Topics covered

• civil rights
• discrimination
• employment
• data collection
• regulation
• politics
• Trump administration

Keywords

• civil rights
• discrimination
• EEOC
• data collection
• Trump
• employment regulation
• race and gender imbalances

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Organizations: Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, NPR

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