10/20/2016

Can Businesses Help Battle Discrimination?

A new report ponders whether companies can make an impact on solving racial discrimination

A new report from the Public Affairs Council indicates that roughly three-quarters of Americans think racial discrimination is a serious problem, with other forms of discrimination also are widely concerning for the public. The report ponders whether companies can make an impact on solving these problems.

Corporate responsibility is increasingly in style, especially on issues of discrimination. But how does the public take to those trends?

According to a new report by the Public Affairs Council (PAC), it’s a bit of a mixed bag. Relatively small percentages of people think that businesses have played important roles in battling issues of discrimination against people with disabilities (34 percent) or based on gender (28 percent), race (27 percent), and sexual orientation (26 percent).

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