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More "equity" BS aimed straight at the heart of middle America and the suburbs.
This is very chilling stuff as he creates new bureaucrats and embeds them in the bureaucracy.
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This is very chilling stuff as he creates new bureaucrats and embeds them in the bureaucracy.
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Some of the initiatives already underway include more than 300 equity actions implemented across 90 agencies, and for example, looking at ways to provide better access to LGBTQI+ individuals for federal services. But Biden’s new EO has new requirements for agencies to make further progress.
One new requirement from the executive order calls on agencies to add resources to their agency equity teams, which are tasked with coordinating internal equity initiatives and ensuring equitable outcomes for federal services and programs. The 2020 executive order charged agencies with creating the teams, and now, agency heads will have 30 days to ensure the teams are set up.
For example, agency equity teams will be responsible for administering equity training and equity leadership development across an entire agency’s workforce.
If they haven’t already, agency heads will also have to appoint a senior official to lead the equity team, in partnership with each agency’s chief diversity officer. The equity teams will also work with each agency’s environmental justice officer, as well as the White House Gender Policy Council.
Ensuring adequate staffing and data collection for the equity teams is another priority under the new executive order. Biden tasked the Office of Management and Budget and internal agency officials with coordinating with the new equity team leaders on the changes from the EO.
“This executive order fosters greater collaboration and accountability, and streamlines agencies’ reporting of progress and planning in order to advance equity in support of all those who face overlapping discrimination and bias,” Biden said.
Creating and updating equity action plans will now be a yearly task for agencies, beyond the initial equity action plans that Biden called for in the 2020 executive order on advancing racial equity.
Agencies have until this September to submit an equity action plan to the newly created White House Steering Committee on Equity. Ambassador Susan Rice, the White House’s Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy, will serve as chairwoman of the steering committee.
The annual equity action plans, according to Biden, should include a progress update on the previous year’s action plan, potential barriers that underserved communities may face in accessing the agency’s programs, and strategies for agencies to try to address those barriers.
Agencies should coordinate with the new equity steering committee to push forward on the goals outlined in their equity action plans. The steering committee will additionally coordinate governmentwide efforts for advancing equity.
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Some of the initiatives already underway include more than 300 equity actions implemented across 90 agencies, and for example, looking at ways to provide better access to LGBTQI+ individuals for federal services. But Biden’s new EO has new requirements for agencies to make further progress.
Bolstering agency equity teams
One new requirement from the executive order calls on agencies to add resources to their agency equity teams, which are tasked with coordinating internal equity initiatives and ensuring equitable outcomes for federal services and programs. The 2020 executive order charged agencies with creating the teams, and now, agency heads will have 30 days to ensure the teams are set up.
For example, agency equity teams will be responsible for administering equity training and equity leadership development across an entire agency’s workforce.
If they haven’t already, agency heads will also have to appoint a senior official to lead the equity team, in partnership with each agency’s chief diversity officer. The equity teams will also work with each agency’s environmental justice officer, as well as the White House Gender Policy Council.
Ensuring adequate staffing and data collection for the equity teams is another priority under the new executive order. Biden tasked the Office of Management and Budget and internal agency officials with coordinating with the new equity team leaders on the changes from the EO.
“This executive order fosters greater collaboration and accountability, and streamlines agencies’ reporting of progress and planning in order to advance equity in support of all those who face overlapping discrimination and bias,” Biden said.
Equity action plans now an annual requirement
Creating and updating equity action plans will now be a yearly task for agencies, beyond the initial equity action plans that Biden called for in the 2020 executive order on advancing racial equity.
Agencies have until this September to submit an equity action plan to the newly created White House Steering Committee on Equity. Ambassador Susan Rice, the White House’s Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy, will serve as chairwoman of the steering committee.
The annual equity action plans, according to Biden, should include a progress update on the previous year’s action plan, potential barriers that underserved communities may face in accessing the agency’s programs, and strategies for agencies to try to address those barriers.
Agencies should coordinate with the new equity steering committee to push forward on the goals outlined in their equity action plans. The steering committee will additionally coordinate governmentwide efforts for advancing equity.
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3 requirements for agencies under Biden’s new executive order on equity
The executive order launches an annual requirement for agencies to develop equity action plans and tasks agencies with improving community outreach when developing those plans.
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