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Housing instability can enter the workplace through disrupted sleep, unexpected moves, missed shifts, and financial strain. On World Habitat Day, C5 examines why stable housing belongs in the workforce conversation.
The current pressure to scale back Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion programs is often framed as a return to merit. But merit-based hiring and equitable practice are not in conflict — they are, in fact, what the law has always required.
The data show Black women gaining employment in some industries while experiencing substantial losses in others. To understand those outcomes, we need to examine where jobs changed — and what those changes mean for the workers affected.
A Black woman earns an executive appointment, accepts a leadership role, or receives a promotion. Before her qualifications are discussed, someone questions whether she was a \"DEI hire.\" This assumption has been amplified by voices that use DEI as a political and cultural criticism — and it deserves a precise, evidence-based response.
Knowing about an experience and having lived it are not the same thing. The gap between those two realities is where most diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts quietly fall apart — and limited perspective can belong to anyone.
Diversity, equity, and inclusion frameworks are powerful on paper — but their real ceiling is the consciousness of the people who create them. Here's why that matters.
Career readiness is more than resume writing. For organizations that serve students, job seekers, or re-entry participants, it's one of the highest-impact investments you can make.
Before rushing to boycott Starbucks over reports that the company dismantled its diversity, equity, and inclusion platform — pause. Read. Analyze. Digest. Then react. The fuller record is considerably more complicated than the headline.
In February 2026, U.S. Representative Jasmine Crockett described Black women as \"the most educated demographic in this country.\" I understand the intention behind the statement. The data, however, require greater precision.
I have been paying attention to Target's corporate responsibility work for nearly two decades. My perspective did not begin with the headlines surrounding the company's 2025 DEI announcement. It began years earlier in Brooklyn, continued through my academic study of corporate responsibility, and today includes experiencing Target's community investment firsthand through my nonprofit governance work.
Most HR compliance gaps don't announce themselves — they accumulate quietly until they become costly. Here's how to assess where your organization stands before 2027.
We like to believe that workforce advancement is merit-based. The assumption is straightforward: gain the education, build the skills, accumulate experience, perform well, and advancement will follow. In practice, however, professional success does not depend on qualifications alone.