{"id":50036,"date":"2015-04-10T00:08:29","date_gmt":"2015-04-10T06:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/04\/10\/the-high-cost-of-discrimination.html"},"modified":"2015-05-06T17:42:56","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T23:42:56","slug":"the-high-cost-of-discrimination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/04\/10\/the-high-cost-of-discrimination.html","title":{"rendered":"The High Cost of Discrimination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Employment bias against women and minorities isn&#39;t just ugly &#8212; it&#39;s costly to the economy, as it robs talent from the job pool. Now some economists have developed a model showing how much the reduction in such discrimination since the 1960 fueled US economic growth &#8212; and how much more we could grow if the remaining racial and gender barriers in employment were to fall.<\/p>\n<p>(h\/t <span class=\"proflinkWrapper\"><span class=\"proflinkPrefix\">+<\/span><a class=\"proflink\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/109830558164732334015\" oid=\"109830558164732334015\">Steve S<\/a><\/span>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.bloombergview.com\/articles\/2015-04-08\/our-bigotry-imposes-a-high-cost-on-the-u-s-economy'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/gV2oil98m_V0E4tZTTOIe9ul_xn7SXenK-WhzeVy2q4vSpmn5dTelkVhLJwWYIUrpyFuTaC17kH1yXXiN2tK-5uiAOczUptgPQa26EA=w506-h303' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.bloombergview.com\/articles\/2015-04-08\/our-bigotry-imposes-a-high-cost-on-the-u-s-economy'>Bigotry Is Expensive<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nDiscrimination imposes a cost on the economy by making it harder for people to get the jobs that make best use of their skills.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/DjsJtxYmvr1'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Employment bias against women and minorities isn&#39;t just ugly &#8212; it&#39;s costly to the economy, as it robs talent from the job pool. Now some economists have developed a model showing how much the reduction in such discrimination since the 1960 fueled US economic growth &#8212; and how much more we could grow if the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/04\/10\/the-high-cost-of-discrimination.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The High Cost of Discrimination&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,21,740,348],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-job-jollies","category-race-racism","category-women"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":138656,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/04\/22\/scotus-takes-on-lgbtq-employment-and-title-vii.html","url_meta":{"origin":50036,"position":0},"title":"SCOTUS takes on LGBTQ employment and Title VII","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 22-Apr-19 7:00pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Is LGBTQ discrimination actually sexual discrimination? 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