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Joshua Weitz

  • Research Associate, Academic-Industry Research Network​

Joshua Weitz is a research associate at the Academic-Industry Research Network

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The Equal Employment Opportunity Omission

Paper Working Paper Series | By William Lazonick, Philip Moss, and Joshua Weitz | Dec 2016

On June 2, 1965, under a mandate established by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the U.S. Congress created the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to enforce federal anti-discrimination laws related to employment. The expectation was that African Americans would be prime beneficiaries of the EEOC.