Affirmative Action

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Following several decades of having it in place, the affirmative action policies that have been hotly debated since their inception have been dismantled across the nation. This paper presents an examination of affirmative action and its elements. The writer develops the argument that affirmative action is a positive tool by which to level the playing field for minority populations in the job market and the educational environment.

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"Affirmative action is a program designed to remedy the past acts of discrimination against minorities and females in America. For more than 200 years Blacks, Hispanics, Asians, females and others have been held back through non admittance to colleges, being passed over not only for jobs but for promotions within their companies. This practice had become so firmly ingrained and accepted that it was commonly accepted to pay women and minorities less money for the same job that their white counter parts were being paid. Affirmative action programs were put into place to remedy those situations and provide opportunities to level the playing field in the future. One of the things affirmative action did was to encourage the recruitment, training , and retention of minority and female employees. Affirmative action also sought to level the playing field in institutions of higher education such as colleges".

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