DEI Under Fire: Costco Votes To Keep Diversity Program -- Here's The List Of Major Companies Getting Rid Of It

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley slammed DEI at Davos, stating companies are "pulling back from DEI and I welcome that" because Americans "don't want to be a label.
47% : During his inaugural address, Trump vowed he would "end the government policy of trying to socially engineer race and gender into every aspect of public and private life," stating he would "forge a society that is colorblind and merit-based."
41% : Many Republican-controlled state legislatures took action against DEI in 2024, with several states, including Alabama, Iowa and Utah banning DEI at public colleges and universities.
32% : Several business leaders addressed diversity, equity and inclusion at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, this week, while Trump railed against it in his speech on Thursday.
32% : Trump's executive order directs federal government agencies to no longer consider diversity in hiring and revise employee training programs to gut DEI training.
24% : In his address, Trump said his administration is moving to "abolish all discriminatory diversity, equity, and inclusion nonsense" in both the government and the private sector, and said the United States will become a "merit-based country."
22% : "In his executive order, Trump slammed the "infiltration" of the federal government with DEI programs, citing an executive order former President Joe Biden issued on his first day in office that directed federal agencies to address racial inequities.

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