{"id":1225,"date":"2009-11-17T15:31:32","date_gmt":"2009-11-17T21:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/crawler\/?p=1225"},"modified":"2009-11-17T15:31:32","modified_gmt":"2009-11-17T21:31:32","slug":"news-flash-race-still-affects-hiring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2009\/11\/17\/news-flash-race-still-affects-hiring\/","title":{"rendered":"news flash: race still affects hiring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/bostonglobe\/ideas\/articles\/2009\/11\/15\/flattery_will_get_you_somewhere\/\" target=\"_blank\">Boston Globe<\/a> also picked up on Devah Pager and colleagues&#8217; findings about the persistence of racial discrimination in hiring:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The study was run by sociologists at Princeton who recruited and trained white, black, and Latino \u201cwell-spoken, clean-cut young men\u201d to apply for real entry-level jobs throughout New York City with fictitious, but essentially identical, resumes. The results were stark: \u201cBlacks were only half as likely to receive a callback or job offer relative to equally qualified whites; moreover, black and Latino applicants with clean backgrounds fared no better than a white applicant just released from prison.\u201d Even worse, the minority candidates were often channeled to positions inferior to those advertised, while the white candidates were often channeled to superior positions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston Globe also picked up on Devah Pager and colleagues&#8217; findings about the persistence of racial discrimination in hiring: The study was run by sociologists at Princeton who recruited and trained white, black, and Latino \u201cwell-spoken, clean-cut young men\u201d to apply for real entry-level jobs throughout New York City with fictitious, but essentially identical, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39074],"tags":[39110,143,119,39111],"class_list":["post-1225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sightings","tag-inequality","tag-labor","tag-poverty","tag-race"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1225"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1227,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225\/revisions\/1227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}