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...pitfalls of affirmative action in admissions has been the use of a quota system by which lesser-qualified minority applicants are allotted a certain number of places in a class...
...bill, which awaits consideration by the Senate Judiciary Committee, would slash the annual employment-visa quota from 140,000 workers to 90,000 within a year of its passage. Some companies that hire immigrants would have to pay a fee of $10,000-or 10% of each worker's salary, whichever is higher--for worker training. Simpson also wants to require some new arrivals to be proficient in business English, and would limit the stay of foreigners transferred to the U.S. from a company's overseas branches to three years--vs. a five-to-seven-year limit today. To increase...
...stop representing affirmative action as some quota filling policy created in a social vacuum and recognize the more fundamental statement it makes, that discrimination won't be tolerated in passive or active forms, and that only a conscientious and rigorous effort will be successful in curtailing such bias...
Proportional representation allows citizens to rank their choice of candidates in order of preference. Once a candidate meets a quota of "number one" votes, his or her excess votes are transferred towards the next numbered candidate...
...votes in excess of the 1,884-vote quota will be transferred...