According to a new report of 2018 and 2019 data, there was an extremely apparent and disproportionate gap between the hiring of Black women and their counterparts for state and local government jobs.
There are a number of factors that go into hiring practices.
(Chicago Tribune) — A federal watchdog on Wednesday awarded nearly $556,000 to job applicants and workers harmed by illegal political favoritism in hiring at the Cook County Forest Preserve District. Court-appointed hiring monitor Jan Carlson determined 105 people were denied job opportunities, fired, not promoted or wrongly disciplined because of political patronage between June 1, 2005, […]