Companies, Facing Risk of Civil Rights Violations, Downsize DEI Programs

“The days of DEI are numbered,” Jack Brown, an attorney at Pacific Legal Foundation, told The Epoch Times. “Any kind of policy that scapegoats people on the basis of race, that divides people into racial groups and then discriminates against them—any of those policies’ days are numbered.” Corporate DEI budgets are increasingly being seen as an unaffordable expense at a time of economic retrenchment, with companies such as Google and Meta recently announcing deep cuts to their diversity departments. According to a CNBC report, based on data from the job site Indeed, DEI-related jobs postings fell by 23 percent for the year ended…