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Attorney General James Stops Discriminatory Hiring Practices at DoorDash

By NewBlackVoices on May 15, 2024 New York City

Editorial credit: Tada Images / Shutterstock.com NEW YORK – New York Attorney General Letitia James today announced a settlement with online food delivery platform DoorDash for routinely rejecting delivery worker applicants with criminal histories without fair assessment, in violation of state human rights and corrections laws and the New York City Fair Chance Act. Under state […]

White-Sounding Names Get Called Back For Jobs More Than Black Ones, A New Study Finds

By NewBlackVoices on April 11, 2024 Features

By Joe Hernandez | NPR Twenty years ago, two economists responded to a slew of help-wanted ads in Boston and Chicago newspapers using a set of fictitious names to test for racial bias in the job market. The watershed study found that applicants with names suggesting they were white got 50% more callbacks from employers than those […]