United States: a collective of big bosses promises to hire more racialized people

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Twenty-seven high-tech bosses and bankers, including Amazon and JP Morgan, pledge to hire 100,000 low-income and minority Americans. This is the first initiative of this group of large companies grouped into a collective, the New York Jobs CEO Council.

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The average income of African Americans is almost half that of white Americans. The Georges Floyd affair , but also the Covid-19 pandemic, have been revealing of these inequalities in the United States .

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Fighting racial inequalities is the goal of these big American bosses, who are committed to hiring 100,000 poor people, from black, Latin and Asian communities, within the next ten years.

Training courses to combat racial inequalities 

To train this new generation for well-paid jobs, in the technology or banking sectors, training will be funded and implemented in universities. It's going to start in New York City first.

Same support from Softbank Groupe. The Japanese venture capital giant has also launched a hundred million dollar fund that will invest in start-ups run by people of color.

In the United Kingdom, the British bank Lloyds is committed to quintuple the number of its black executives within five years. To arrive at the equivalent of the percentage of blacks in the British population.

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