Here's What Happened After Affirmative Action Ended In These 4 States

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : The effects of the Supreme Court's decision to strike down affirmative action will take time to materialize -- but a 2013 Harvard study found that after affirmative action ended in key states "sharp declines" in the workplace followed for Asian women, Black women and Hispanic men.
51% : Critics have argued that in addition to White and Asian students being discriminated against, affirmative action takes away from the achievements of minority students in favor of satisfying quotas.
51% : The future of affirmative action: Experts explain the upcoming Supreme Court cases (Temple University)
46% : Bans on affirmative action at universities, which greatly impacted minority student populations, are not unprecedented.
37% : When the University of California system eliminated affirmative action in 1995, the number of Black and Latino students accepted by Berkeley and UCLA was cut by nearly half by 1998, the first year affected by the ban.

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