He sits in Joppy's Bar looking through a newspaper in search of a job, when Mr. ... He offers him a job, to find Daphne, and is willing to pay one hundred dollars for it. ... Carter then says he is willing to pay him to find Daphne. ... There were other white men who were tired too but they still had their job. ... Money played a great role in this movie because everyone kept paying eachother off for their service. ...

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Meaning, if people are unable to acquire certain jobs because of the color of their skin, then those people would potentially be unable to desegregate themselves in other facets of life as well. If most of the high paying jobs in our country continued to go to white people, then blacks would still be unable to send their children to expensive universities treat themselves in nicer hospitals, eat in nicer restaurants, etc. ... Once Title VII began to take shape, more and more minorities and women began to receive the jobs that had previously only been offered to white men. ... Jobs and promo...

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Even though you might be the most qualified for the job you still might not obtain the position. ... The debate by most individuals is that I lost my job or pay increase because of affirmative action. ... He states that minorities say they need this to be seen as an equal in an interview for a job. ... Women cannot produce the same amount of body power for a job in which a man can. ... Jobs require strength and brains, not just brains. ...

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Blacks found job hunting to be a challenge because of this. Blacks had to take the jobs that the whites did not want, which usually were the undesirable jobs. ... Thomas Jackson, which is in regards to her getting a job. ... # If she were a white woman with these qualifications, she would have been given the highest paying job for a typist. ... With the jobs that black people did acquire came scrutiny and segregation. ...

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Affirmative action has not completely done its job. ... The African American tester in each pair received no job referrals. ... The Caucasian woman declined the job offer. ... Affirmative action has opened workplace doors for people of all colors who have been excluded from better-paying and high-status jobs in the past (Affirmative). ... Although affirmative action has helped so many people, it has not finished its job. ...

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Those who pay with an EBT card have to meet specific requirements in order to use it. ... During my observations, I assumed all of the customers using EBT have minimum wage jobs or don't work enough hours to provide for their families. ... If both parents are working in full-time, minimum wage jobs, which pay $7.25 per hour, it is impossible for them to make ends meet. ... Black job applicants have been rejected simply because of their race. ... If institutional racism and white privilege did not exist, the difference between unemployment rates of blacks and whites would be significantly ...

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During the Great Depression, colored people found it much harder to find work because of their skin color, and many reverted to being field hands and doing many jobs that used to be considered slave labor in the 1770s to the 1830s. Colored families faced an unemployment rate that was much higher than whites, which caused many to be forced into poverty stricken homes and to settle in small towns where there were less whites and hopefully more jobs. The colored families were met with passive aggressive racism in these towns, but were often given jobs, and the towns like Maycomb from To Kill a Mo...

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It can be seen in corporate environments as well as minimum wage blue-collar jobs. The glass ceiling can strike in any job, because the discrimination is every where. ... This is especially true in blue-collar jobs. This sometimes leads to bad job performance, acting out at work, and the carrying over into the home. ... As a result, they have been known to disproportionately cluster in "white collar gettos or the bottom tiers of management and lowest paying industries."" ...

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Look at an old sitcom made before the affirmative action law was put into place (the Affirmative Action Law stated that perspective employees, no matter what race, color, sex, creed or national origin could be discriminated when applying for a job) in 1965 to help minorities receive more jobs and better pay (Pioneer 1). ... He also told me that the school was paying for him to live and attend college, and then he started to laugh. ...

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In 1997, Diana Piantanida had a child and took maternity leave from her job at a charitable organization, the Wyman Center. ... The new position cut her pay in half and had less responsibility than her old position. ... She asked her new supervisor Michael Bowers if she could start her new job later so they could take a honeymoon. ... On the stand Bowers said he knew she was gay when they offered her the job. ... Robin Shahar lost her case and her job. ...

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America's once great city, Detroit, used to produce the largest amount of automobiles than any other city on the globe, with almost 300,000 manufacturing jobs circa 1950, and now there are barely 30,000. ... The automotive industry (and other manufacturing industries) couldn't keep up with foreign competition, and the owners of these companies decided to outsource those hundreds of thousands of jobs to third world countries for third world rates. ... Good-paying assembly line jobs were being outsourced and the factories were closing its doors. ...

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Affirmative action is a major issue because it grants access to institutions and jobs based on innate characteristics such as skin color or gender, and not by just merit. ... Similarly, a study done in 1988 found that workplace discrimination was the "number one barrier" for women in achieving future promotions .Even in today's supposedly "more equal" workplace, men in higher-paying jobs are promoted at a rate almost 40% greater than their female counterparts. The types of jobs women have are also limited by their gender: only 3% of firefighters are women, 8% of police...

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For example, I would argue how there is more labor jobs given to Blacks in jail than Blacks who live in poor communities. ... Many Black males who didn't receive jobs in America made cheap wages in the prison industry. Is it ironic that a black male cannot afford a job in society, but soon as a black male is incarcerated he has huge amount of work. ... Another thing the nation is paying attention to immigration. ... Mean are sometimes denied the right to vote, discriminated from having a job, and public benefits", during the Jim Crow period. ...

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Within this structure those lower paying jobs previously held by unskilled, primarily non-white Americans have shifted overseas to cheaper, foreign laborers. ... In support of this he writes, "For example, recent studies reveal that, although they oppose such preferential racial policies as college admission quotas or job hiring and promotion strategies designed to achieve equal outcomes, most white Americans approve of such opportunity-enhancing affirmative action policies as race-targeted programs for job training, special education and recruitment." ...

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But there are still thousands of examples of situations where people of color, white women, and working class women and men of all races who were previously excluded from jobs or educational opportunities, or were denied opportunities once admitted, have gained access through affirmative action. ... In its modern form, affirmative action can call for an admission officer faced with two similarly qualified applicants to choose the minority over the white, or for a manager to recruit and hire a qualified woman for a job instead of a man. ... Overall, minorities and women are in vastly lower payi...

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., where for the duration of the war he ministered without pay to sick and wounded soldiers" (Olsen-Smith). ... In 1848, many years before he wrote this poem, Whitman had lost a job at a newspaper because "of his unyielding support of the Wilmot Proviso of 1846" (Olsen-Smith). ... His father had moved to Mexico and became a successful businessman, eventually helping Hughes go to, and pay for college. ...

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Now since that is less acceptable covert racism is used by committing less noticeable acts to minorities by giving them less pay rate or ignoring them. ... The expression "before you can work here" implies that the Hispanic woman will be prohibited from working at a job unless they prove they can speak English fluently. ... Racism towards minorities in the workplace mainly comes in the form of low pay rates and promotions when compared to their Caucasian colleagues. ...

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The internet can be accessed at jobs, schools, and in homes for a very cheap price of $20 a month or even less for unlimited access to the internet. For most students, access to the internet is free so the majority of the users in the United States do not find themselves paying for internet service. ...

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