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EEOC advances plan to end 60-year workforce demographic data collection

EEOC advances plan to end 60-year workforce demographic data collection
  • The EEOC has proposed ending its EEO-1 demographic data collection, a 60-year-old reporting requirement that companies use to disclose workforce composition by race, ethnicity, sex, and job title.
  • The agency's majority-Republican commission is expected to vote on the proposal this fall; Commissioner Andrea Lucas has defended the change as protecting against discrimination against white workers.
  • The agency receives nearly 90,000 discrimination complaints each year and has used EEO-1 data to identify patterns of bias in hiring and promotion, according to former staff and civil rights advocates.
  • In a May 2026 settlement, the EEOC used EEO-1 data to show that Central Transport had passed over qualified female applicants for more than 10 years across 25 locations; the company agreed to pay $5.5 million and reform its hiring process.
 2026-09-02 · 3 MIN READ

Maine governor candidate confirms audio on federal agents at polls

Illustration accompanying article: Maine governor candidate confirms audio on federal agents at polls
  • Maine's Republican candidate for governor confirmed an audio recording in which he discussed deploying federal agents to polling places.
  • In the recording, the candidate said he would ask Trump's border czar to deploy U.S. marshals and ICE agents to polling places to ensure only legal voters cast ballots.
  • President Donald Trump and his allies continue to make claims about voting by noncitizens ahead of the November midterm elections.
  • Trump is pushing the U.S. Postal Service to send mail ballots only to voters verified as U.S. citizens.
  • The Census Bureau promoted a report claiming thousands of noncitizens voted in the 2020 presidential election, which the Associated Press described as "dubious."
  • The Department of Homeland Security has asserted without evidence that 250,000 noncitizens may be registered to vote in four states.
 2026-08-29 · 3 MIN READ
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