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There are lots of things that could be done. On the broadest level the most important thing we could do would be to tackle poverty in general head on. Thicker safety net, free college, better public schools, more job programs, etc. Reducing poverty indirectly reduces a lot of the factors that prop up discrimination.
As expected, a liberal cornucopia of big government, big spending "solutions' which don't work. If Vietnamese boatpeople refugees could make it in a land that had just fought a brutal war against their communist brethren, then anyone can make it, so screw the thicker safety net which just increases dependency. Free college is a worthless gesture because the returns to education, when we control for cognition, are minimal. Employers are not paying for an applicant's skill level in analyzing the hegemonic oppression of race in rural New Mexico, circa 1955, nor are they paying for any of the other "skills" learned in Wymyn's Studies, Afro-American studies, Art History, sociology, etc. Better public schools - you want those then you have to be prepared to give in order to receive. I'd go for a uniform state grant to every child in the state and the elimination of local funding of schools so long as we implement a total charter system. Every student gets the same money and every student can apply to any school that they wish and any school can accept or reject the students that apply. Here you have eliminated all government variation in how much schools spend per student. Every school gets the same amount of money from State Government. They can supplement by charging parents for the difference. As for jobs programs, they're mostly useless.
If you want to achieve your goals you're never going to get buy in from the rest of society when you package them up with big government delivery systems. You need to marry your goals to conservative delivery systems. Liberals comprise only 20% of the electorate compared to 40% for conservatives. You're not going to get everything you want. Find ways to achieve the same goals without traveling down the socialist road. This advice also applies to environmentalists and their big government schemes.
For employment discrimination directly, there are two tools for fighting it- discrimination suits and affirmative action. For discrimination suits a few things would help. First, reduce the pleading standards.
**** That. This is exactly the tack that the Brits took with the issue of there not being enough rape convictions. The set out to reduce the evidenciary standards needed to secure a conviction. You're not going to get any buy-in with your jack-boot stomping on freedom and liberty. You've already gutted the Constitution on the issue of free association, so now that we've seen how anti-liberty your vision is, I can't imagine that people will allow you to erode even more liberty.
At present you basically need to be able to prove that discrimination occurred before you can even pass the pleading stage, so you can't do discovery.
That's too bad, but designing equal outcomes is just not worth upending legal standards. If people are not overtly discriminating, then you're left with the SUGGESTION that there is covert discrimination taking place. Targeting innocent people based on suggestions is too intrusive of a tactic.
Third, in my opinion, the individual who discriminated should face jail time, not just a criminal fine or civil damages from the employer.
That doesn't surprise me at all. You play right into the jackbooted leftist authoritarian stereotype. I'd love to see you explaining to women that they are being arrested for discriminating against male OB/GYNs because they prefer having female OB/GYNs looking at their private parts. Discrimination on the basis of gender, right?
Instead, first, I would push for more extensive review of the explanations employers give.
Are you trying to send even more jobs overseas? Now employers have to justify why they hired the people they hired and this to someone like you working in a government overseer's office.