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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.
www.uri.edu/affirmative_action/definitions.html

# Measures taken to correct the effects of past discrimination in hiring and promotion
www.onlinewbc.gov/docs/starting/glossary.html

# 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. ...
www.vec.virginia.gov/vecportal/lbrmkt/glossary.cfm

# Positive steps to enhance the diversity of some group, often to remedy the......

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