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# Specific actions in recruitment, hiring, upgrading and other areas designed and taken for the purpose of eliminating the present effects of past discrimination, or to prevent discrimination.
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# Measures taken to correct the effects of past discrimination in hiring and promotion
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# Established during FDR's presidency, intended to provide minorities with increased social, economic, educational, and other opportunities.
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# A program that became law with the passage of the Equal Economic Opportunity (EEO) Act of 1972, whereby employers, labor unions, employment agencies, and labor-management apprenticeship programs must actively seek to eliminate discrimination against and increase employment of women and minorities. ...
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# Positive steps to enhance the diversity of some group, often to remedy the......

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