Diversity Management, News and Updates
A recent California bill would mandate diversity in corporate boards for all companies headquartered within the state. The bill would ban all-white corporate boards and comes on the heels of a 2018 law that mandated women hold seats in all corporate boards. This racial diversity bill AB 979 defines “underrepresented…
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California lawmakers passed a law requiring all public companies based in the state to have at least one female director by the end of 2019. Latina women are still being left behind in representation, despite the number of Hispanics in the civilian U.S. workforce more than doubling from 10.7 million to 25.4 million workers between 1990…
People with mental illnesses are 16 times more likely to be killed in encounters with police, according to a study by the Treatment Advocacy Center. The community in Eugene, Ore., is working to change that statistic with its use of Crisis Assistance Helping Out On The Streets (CAHOOTS), a specialized…
Five are dead and at least four others are injured after a shooter opened fire at an off-campus college Halloween party Thursday night in Orinda, Calif. The Orinda Police Department and Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Office are investigating the shooting. A suspect has yet to be named. The incident occurred…
Originally published on pressroom.toyota.com. Toyota Financial Services (TFS) announced it is offering payment relief options to its customers affected by the recent series of wildfires throughout California, as well as the tornadoes which struck northern Texas earlier this month. This broad outreach includes any Toyota Financial Services (TFS) or Lexus Financial…
In Long Beach, Calif., on Tuesday night, another shooting left three men dead and nine people injured at what may have been a Halloween party at a private residence. All nine injured people were taken to hospitals nearby, including two men and seven women with ages between 20 and 49….
In April 2017, 16-year-old Isiah Murrietta-Golding was running away from police officers when he was shot in the back of the head in Fresno, Calif. The shooting was ruled justified after an investigation because Murrietta-Golding reached for his waistband to pull his pants up — until now. This week, an…
Over the weekend, a group of people protesting against President Donald Trump’s administration gathered on Santa Monica Pier in California. But it got ugly on Saturday when a group of people in support of Trump’s reelection campaign shoved their way into the protestors, The Washington Post reported, holding American flags…
Portable generators and solar panels are things that most low-income people can’t imagine purchasing and then paying to power when living paycheck to paycheck. The recent planned blackouts in Northern California, which are affecting around 2 million people and are meant to avoid wildfires, are shining a light on a…