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Affirmative action works. There are thousands of situations when discrimated people did not get a job or
When these policies received government
support, vast numbers of people of color, white women and men have gained access
they would not otherwise have had. These gains have led to very real changes. Affirmative
action programs have not eliminated racism, nor have they always been implemented without
problems. However, there would be no struggle to roll back the gains achieved if affirmative
action policies were ineffective. The implementation of affirmative action was America's first
honest attempt at solving a problem, it had previously chosen to ignore. In a variety of areas,
from the quality of health care to the rate of employment, blacks still remain far behind whites.
Their representation in the more prestigious professions is still almost insignificant. Comparable
imbalances exist for other racial and ethnic minorities as well as for women. Yet, to......

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