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Rep. Linda Sanchez, who serves as the vice chair of the House Democratic Caucus, echoed to reporters on Wednesday the «crumbs» line from House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi.

The findings of racially motivated mapmaking satisfied Democrats and minority rights groups, who are now pushing a separate federal court in Texas to determine that the voter ID law was also crafted with discriminatory intent.

But when a set of volunteers rated the responses based on how likely they were to hire each person, the minority of people who admitted to «real» flaws were perceived as more honest, and therefore as better hires.

The move means no Latino will serve in a presidential cabinet for the first time in nearly 30 years and comes at a time when Hispanics are now the largest minority group in the country.

A «meet one, take one» campaign that encourages industry leaders to bring a woman or a minority to a networking or other event to broaden and diversify the network opportunities and create more inclusive communities for entrepreneurs.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi published a press release today about coming together through today's election frenzy.

By forcing internet service providers to pull the plug on Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook, the government there hopes to stem the spread of hate speech and fake news it blames for attacks on the country's Muslim minority.

The deal also reportedly boosts Vice's valuation to $ 5.7 billion, according to multiple reports, though the companies did not disclose the size of TPG's minority stake in Vice.

According to the Journal, which cited anonymous sources, prominent Democrats including House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi spent the weekend changing their cellphone numbers, attempting to learn more about the hacking, and trying to figure out whether other hackings may be coming.

Some individual schools also award aid this way, but they are in the overwhelming minority, Chany said.

The Brooklyn - based media company already counts Walt Disney and 21st Century Fox as minority owners, and Disney's most recent investment valued Vice at more than $ 4 billion, in 2015.

Ifill's death sparked a bipartisan outpouring of condolences from politicians ranging from House Majority Leader Paul Ryan to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi.

At the time, she said the company would collaborate with higher education institutions, invest in women and minority - owned companies, and create bolder hiring and retention incentives to encourage diversity at Intel.

When we talk about affirmative action, federal law allows you to hire a woman or minority candidate over a male or white candidate if both are equally qualified.

Kalin says many of the complaints about low - cost competition come from a minority of very vocal Etsy sellers, which is undoubtedly true.

Apparently, Robertson and I are in the minority, as the A&E show has been a ratings phenomenon, with viewers returning week after to week to watch the Robertson's antics.

Shore Capital will retain a minority stake.

But what it doesn't allow you to do is hire a less qualified female or minority candidate.

That hasn't helped the company identify the kind and number of qualified minority candidates that it needs to broaden the overall work force.

The Swiss bank, she says, is fostering connections and goodwill among women, racial - minority and LGBTQ founders to strengthen their overall business community.

In 2009, Williams and her sister Venus become minority owners of the Miami Dolphins, making them the first female African Americans to hold an ownership stake in an NFL franchise.

Highlighting his party's lack of power, House Minority Leader Patrick Bauer said Wednesday that his caucus» ability to stall the measure for even a few weeks itself constituted a success, of sorts.

Black & Denim was a winner of the MillerCoors Urban Entrepreneurship Business Plan Competition Series, Macy's gave them a week in its minority business development program called The Workshop at Macy's, and they recently raised more than $ 35,000 in their Kickstarter campaign.

And while white entrepreneurs of means are more likely to start a business with financial help from friends and family, generations of poverty in minority communities shuts the door on this prospect.

Engineering contractor Calibre Group has announced a radical restructuring that includes a partial buyout of minority shareholders, delisting from the ASX, and the purchase of Sydney - based company Diona for $ 45 million.

That includes funding programs that teach STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) to young people in underserved areas, collaborating with higher education institutions, investing in women and minority - owned companies and creating bolder hiring and retention incentives and programs to encourage diversity within Intel.

That doesn't have to always be the case, notes Melissa Bradley, director of Kauffman's Sustainable Entrepreneurship and Innovation Initiative who writes about minority entrepreneurship for the foundation.

On Wednesday, Trump labeled the Senate minority leader ««Cryin» Chuck Schumer.»»

But the most important thing it's doing is focusing on rapidly advancing qualified minority employees into higher levels of management so that there's increased visibility and concrete demonstrations of the company's commitment to this goal.

In another twist, last year State Street paid $ 5 million to settle allegations it underpaid female and minority employees.

Sweet has also received many requests from minority employees to continue the dialogue, as well as some from others asking why their issues — regarding LGBT matters, for example — didn't receive the same treatment.

If you think of the company as of last November, before we started doing new stuff, that will one day I believe be the minority of our revenue.

Both Water Street and Mr. Walter will remain minority investors in the company.

After all, these companies employ more than 2.2 million people, according to the National Minority Supplier Development Council, which works with corporations to include minority - run businesses in their supply chains.

Just last week, Milton, Del. - based Dogfish Head, the nation's 13th - largest craft brewer, sold a minority stake to a private equity firm.

According to a 2013 study by the Center for Venture Research at the University of New Hampshire, minority entrepreneurs accounted for just 7 percent of pitches made to angel investors (13 percent resulted in an investment).

But despite a steady increase in their share of entrepreneurial activity, founders from Latino communities along with those from other minority groups — which made up 40 percent of the U.S. population in 2015 — still receive less funding and fail at faster rates than their white counterparts.

«What strikes me about the Bush economic strategy at this point is that it comes straight from Jack Kemp's philosophy about empowerment and minority entrepreneurship and developing inner cities,» says Bill Whalen, a research fellow of politics at the Hoover Institution.

Even before a business's first bill is due, minority founders are disproportionately ill - prepared for entrepreneurship, thanks to a lack of intellectual and social capital in underserved communities, Kauffman researchers say.

I want to, in the next 10 years, get to this place where we can sell end - to - end trips — and have hundreds of millions of people every year booking end - to - end experiences where the home [stay] might be a minority of what we're doing.

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Just as some impact investors focus on supporting businesses in the developing world, investors with a conscience would do well to fund minority - owned businesses in the U.S., Bradley argues.

Afterward, Trump said he wants the power to issue line - item vetoes on spending bills — a power many presidents have demanded, and that Congress has never granted — and that the Senate should eliminate the ability of a minority to filibuster legislation.

The federal government says that 23 percent of all government dollars must be set aside of small businesses, and a part of that goes to minority - owned businesses (including women - owned, veteran & service - disabled veteran owned, Native American - owned, Alaskan - owned, and Native Hawaiian - owned corporations).

It's easy to discriminate against the minority cobbler down the street by traveling a few extra blocks to buy from «your own kind»; it's much harder to act out your racist biases when buying shoes at a big department store because, well, you have no idea what colour or sex or sexual orientation of the person who made those shoes is.

Portugal's minority center - right government collapsed this week after the three leftist parties that won the majority of seats in September month's general election refused to support its continuation of bailout - dictated austerity policies.

Smurfit Kappa, Europe's largest producer of paper - based packaging, said on Tuesday that under the proposal its shareholders would receive a combination of cash and a minority holding in the combined business.

Are women or other minority groups getting promoted at the same rate as their non-minority peers?

As a result, either the SPD agrees to enter a coalition with Merkel, she heads a minority government, or the country holds news elections.

While it may be true that «minority firm owners are less likely to have bank loans of any kind, they have easy access to transaction loans from nonbanks,» Veronique de Rugy of the American Enterprise Institute wrote in a paper last year.