Can the census handle a changing America?
Center For American Progress
The census is more than a constitutional mandate to snapshot the population and ensures proper allocation of federal funds. It is also a telling—and at times controversial—window into how the United States deals with the most deeply personal of all issues: identity. How people within the American "melting pot" identify themselves is often an insightful narrative on society's relationship with race, ethnicity, assimilation, and culture.More

UnitedHealth Group recognized for Hispanic outreach
Finance and Commerce
The National Hispanic Medical Association gave its annual Health Leadership Award this spring to Minnetonka, Minn.,-based UnitedHealth Group, recognizing the company’s initiatives to improve the health of Hispanic consumers. The association cited UnitedHealth's efforts to create a diverse health care workforce and to meet the needs of medically underserved communities, and it highlighted three examples of UnitedHealth programs in the Hispanic community.More

Employee discrimination claims hit record high in 2009
Inc. magazine
Thinking of letting an employee or two go? Watch your step. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission recovered a record high of $294 million in back wages on behalf of employee claimants in fiscal year 2009, thanks partly to the recession. It also collected another $82 million from complaints that actually made it to court (as opposed to the EEOC's process).More

The Obamas on the "high-wire act" of work vs. family balance
ABC News
Likening the balancing act between work and family life to a "high-wire act" President Obama said that his administration stands committed to helping with workplace flexibility — as many more families struggle to make ends meet in households with two working parents.More

Controversial gay activist appointed to EEOC
Christian Broadcasting Network
The Obama administration now includes a controversial lesbian law professor who says sexual freedom is more important than religious liberty. President Obama used one of his 15 recess appointments over the weekend to name Chai Feldblum to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Feldblum has taken a strong position in favor of homosexuality.More

Virginia governor prohibits bias against gay state workers
The Washington Post
Hoping to quell a growing uproar on Virginia's college campuses over gay rights, Gov. Robert F. McDonnell issued a directive to all 102,000 state employees that prohibits discrimination in the state workforce, including on the basis of sexual orientation, and warns he will reprimand or fire anyone who engages in it.More

Overhaul will lower the costs of being a woman
The New York Times
Being a woman is no longer a pre-existing condition. That's the new mantra, repeated triumphantly by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senator Barbara A. Mikulski and other advocates for women's health. But what does it mean? In the broadest sense, the new health care law forbids sex discrimination in health insurance.More