As Trump targets DEI, Republican-led states intensify efforts to...

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

70% : JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - Republican-led states are accelerating efforts to stamp out diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, expanding from higher education to other government functions since President Donald Trump fully embraced the movement.
60% : Some workers targeted by Trump´s anti-DEI measures claim they are being used to justify firing people who happen to be minorities and women.
59% : Efforts to promote diversity, equity and inclusion have existed for years in higher education institutions, businesses and government bureaucracies.
59% : New laws in Tennessee, West Virginia and Wyoming target DEI initiatives in state and local governments as well as higher education.
58% : A provision limiting DEI in higher education got left out of the state budget last year.
55% : Texas was among the first states in 2023 to legislate against spending on DEI programs in higher education.
54% : Limits on DEI initiatives in higher education recently approved by legislatures in Missouri and Oklahoma raise the total number of similar state laws and gubernatorial orders to two dozen since 2023.
51% : The legislative model promoted by the Manhattan Institute and the Goldwater Institute focused on higher education, seeking to abolish DEI offices and staff, end mandatory diversity training, ban compulsory diversity statements and outlaw racial or sexual preferences in hiring and admissions.
51% : " A new Idaho law signed by Republican Gov. Brad Little not only bans DEI offices and programs in higher education but also addresses what's taught in the classroom.
46% : "We are seeing the multiplication of the anti-DEI effort literally everywhere," Harper added.
38% : One class-action complaint by federal workers alleges that Trump´s anti-DEI executive orders discriminate against employees who aren´t white men.
29% : "The federal attacks on diversity, equity and inclusion from the Trump administration have further cleared the path for conservative state legislators," said Shaun Harper, a professor of education, business and public policy at the University of Southern California who founded the National DEI Defense Coalition.
23% : Trump has reversed those efforts, denouncing DEI policies as a form of discrimination that threatens merit-based decision-making.

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