Last month, Andrea Lucas, the chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, posted a video to X asking an unusual question: "Are you a white male who has experienced discrimination at work based on your race or sex?" she says to the camera. "The EEOC is committed to identifying, attacking, and eliminating all forms of race and sex discrimination - including against white male applicants and employees."
HUD first formalized recognition of disparate impact liability in a 2013 rule issued during the Obama administration. That interpretation was affirmed in 2015, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs v. Inclusive Communities Project, Inc. that disparate impact claims are cognizable under the Fair Housing Act. During President Donald Trump's first term, HUD revised the rule to more closely reflect the Supreme Court's Inclusive Communities decision and to clarify its application.
In August of 2022, just after Prime Day, Leah Cross started working as an Amazon delivery driver in Colorado. She took the job because she had long heard that it was a decent and paid well. She thought it would be a way to get her foot in with a reputable company that offered good benefits. But in the end, "It was kind of the complete opposite of my experience there," she said.
Changing the interpretation of race-based discrimination, increasing flexibility within the college accreditation system and reworking the process to yank federal financial aid eligibility for the certain civil rights violations are top priorities for Linda McMahon and the Department of Education, according to the agency's rule-making agenda released Thursday. The Unified Spring Agenda, which reported first, provides brief descriptions of what the department wants to change for each topic and a loose timeline for the rule-making process.