Advocates have portrayed the District of Columbia measure as a civil rights issue, saying studies have shown that African Americans are disproportionately more likely to be arrested on marijuana charges than
are people of other races.
There is a 58 percent figure mentioned, but it has to do with the racial makeup of restaurant workers affected: 58 percent of workers below the poverty line, according to the report,
are people of color.
As of now, Holberton claims that 40 % of its current students are women and more than half (53 %)
are people of color.
Fifty - four percent of those women
are people of color, who face their own pay gap.
More than 60 % of the people in U.S prisons
are people of color.
That didn't stop [Bell chief executive] George Cope from coming in and dealing with me because he knows I'm a person of integrity.
Yet West, in her early 30s, says it's also a challenge «being asked what it's like
being a person of color in technology.»
He'll respect you for
being a person of your word and will almost certainly allow you a few more minutes.
He has
been a person of high integrity who has been passionate about improving the firm.
«Lawyers and preachers
were the people of that movement.
The study found that four of the eight top executives at Pinterest
were people of color, and, according to Recode, women account for just 12.5 percent of all executives at the company.
«I'm a person of color, so it really cut deep,» Nextdoor CEO Nirav Tolia told Fusion recently of the reports, which Fusion had first written about in 2015 and which the East Bay Express had also reported on.
«You don't have to
be a person of color or a woman or a person from another marginalized identity to be a champion for diversity,» she said.
Not exact matches
These hires generally fail miserably, because the new
person doesn't have the requisite energy and enthusiasm, isn't comfortable with the rest
of the employees, starts off by criticizing the way the entrepreneurs runs the business, or
is just way too focused on financial and compensation issues.
One
of the best things it does
is help hire great
people.»
It
was quite humbling, I left my strategy consulting job at McKenzie and I became a door - to - door sales
person of original ZocDoc products.
«We see a lot
of companies come in with a lot
of capital — really good business - minded
people — but they
're not enthusiasts or enthusiastic about the product they
're selling,» says Cobb.
Johnson
is proposing a unique approach to combat the depressingly repetitive, dehumanizing experiences that black
people and other
people of color too frequently experience in retail spaces.
So if a
person plus their luggage
is less than that, taking into account food consumption and life - support, then we think that the cost
of moving to Mars could drop below $ 100,000.
Automotive engineers say «they
're asking questions about automotive safety — how foolish
of these
people — go and get a degree!»»
«It
's a shame that the coffee price issue obscured the real story here for so many
people, but, once again, this kind
of «one - way» data point thinking led investors astray... when it
was actually quite strong,» said the «Mad Money» host.
«The source
of raw material, to most
people,
is disgusting,» she said.
It
's the 21st - century version
of How to Win Friends and Influence
People.
Find the
people who love and believe in you — there will
be lots
of them.
«For
people of a certain age, Victor Kiam
was a bit
of a celebrity thanks to him fronting his company's TV ads.
While only one
of the candidates became a board member, I still speak with many other
people who
were part
of the process.
Sitting in a chair for most
of their waking hours often translates into carrying around more weight than
is good for a
person, physiologically or esthetically speaking.
Countess Meliara and her brother Bran lead a rebellion against the king in light
of his secret plot to break the covenant the kingdom's
people hold with the hill folk, but their army
is ill - prepared and she falls into enemy hands — or at least, what she thinks
are enemy hands.
Some
of the things that made T'Challa [the film's main character] a good leader
were that he wasn't afraid to empower the
people that worked with him, and he
was somebody who kind
of gathers information from everybody.
Meanwhile, the State Administration for Foreign Exchange (SAFE) imposed onerous new reporting requirements requiring
people to explain why, where and how they intend to use their annual quota
of foreign currency (which
is capped at $ 50,000 per
person).
And that
's because Otis
's invention didn't just whisk
people and freight up and down floors with unprecedented speed, it recast the landscape
of civilization: It did nothing less than reinvent the city.
Erin Lowry, author
of Broke Millennial: Stop Scraping By and Get Your Financial Life Together, says, «
People's relationship to money is not rational, it's emotional... We need to focus more on the psychological blocks and triggers that stand in people's ways, instead of just explaining how to budget or the importance of compound interest.&
People's relationship to money
is not rational, it
's emotional... We need to focus more on the psychological blocks and triggers that stand in
people's ways, instead of just explaining how to budget or the importance of compound interest.&
people's ways, instead
of just explaining how to budget or the importance
of compound interest.»
The average round - trip commute time
is about an hour, but it
's not that uncommon for
people to commute from the far reaches
of the Central Valley into the city.
When I
am done speaking, there
is often a group
of people that will want to come up to me to chat, or I seek out the most engaged
person to talk to.
By Saturday up to 200 employees drafted from merchandising, logistics, supply chain and human resources teams
were marshaling
people and goods from Home Depot's buzzing five - room command center filled with monitors tracking the storm and maps
of the hurricane region pasted on walls.
PR, or public relations
is one
of those areas
of business that
people have a lot
of opinions about, but there
's a lot
of mystery behind the scenes.
By consciously
being aware
of the fact that most negative actions from others stem from their own inner insecurities, and not from a desire to harm the receiver, we
are able to respond to
people in a more positive and meaningful way.
You may
be ending up with a
person with fake credentials and therefore
is, at best, unable to complete the requirements
of the job.
Promising students identified at University
of the
People are eligible for admission at NYU's Abu Dhabi campus.
It
's not easy to tell these
people to cool their jets and that your pace doesn't reflect the depth
of your passion or your commitment.
At the moment, the ability to watch live sports seems to
be one
of the few things that keeps large numbers
of people subscribing to cable at all, and ESPN — and its owner Disney (DIS)-- have counted on the fact that this relationship
is rock solid.
When Chrysler and GM filed for bankruptcy,
people were saying «This
is the end
of the auto industry.»
American culture, I explained, judges extra-marital affairs very harshly, so a senior official caught in such a position could easily
be subject to blackmail - something that a CIA director,
of all
people, must avoid.
If
people tossed some
of these unused apps, they would save tons
of time that
's now lost searching for specific icons lurking somewhere in the mess.
I
was just thinking about this and I think that this happens because
people don't really think this through and believe that the marketing strategy will make their product a better choice than those
of the competition.
The world
is full
of people being awesome in a variety
of surprising and beautiful ways.
«A lot
of people put me into a box, which
is what a lot
of veterans face when they go into the civilian world,» said J.R. Martinez, one
of the best - known veterans
of the second Gulf War.
But instead
of pulling out, experts
are urging
people to look at relatively attractive fixed income products abroad, particularly in emerging markets.
Systems
are very important, however, the first thing we would do when taking over a business would
be to understand its Human Capital - we need to know what type
of people we have in the organization.
In my professional life, the
people I work with typically know better than I do how I can
be of the most value to them, so I just ask.