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The U.S. Supreme Court's ruling that new haven, Conn., violated 20 white and Hispanic firefighters' rights by scrapping a promotions test that few black candidates passed leaves city officials in a bind. Lose the test and you punish those who aced it. Keep it and you risk leaving intact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Brief History Of: Affirmative Action | 7/13/2009 | See Source »

3 | Washington A Ruling on Race In the most anticipated case on its docket, the U.S. Supreme Court sided with a group of white and Hispanic firefighters who sued after their passing scores on a promotion exam were thrown out because black applicants performed poorly on the test. The workplace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World | 7/13/2009 | See Source »

1. On the demographics of American homelessness: "The most common demographic features of all sheltered homeless people are: male, members of minority groups, older than 31, and alone. More than two-fifths of sheltered homeless people have a disability. This demographic profile is likely to agree with commonly held perceptions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The State of Homelessness in the U.S. | 7/13/2009 | See Source »

What's more, having a negative view of the future varied widely among respondents, depending on their ethnicity, gender and socioeconomic status. Older male Hispanic adolescents were the most likely to believe their lives would be cut short. Among teens whose families received any form of financial assistance from the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Do Some Teens Behave Recklessly? | 6/30/2009 | See Source »

Despondent Republican staffers privately concede that Sotomayor's long record on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals; her background as a prosecutor, corporate lawyer and judge; and the political danger of attacking a Hispanic nominee make President Barack Obama's first pick for the court all but a shoo-in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What the Court's Firefighter Ruling Means for Sotomayor | 6/30/2009 | See Source »

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