DINT #54 - Your Tax Dollars Fund Racism and Sexism in Tech

In a groundbreaking series on race and gender in the workplace, USA Today and Reveal found federal contractors dodge reporting on diversity numbers. Yet they still win federal contracts.

When we pay taxes, we expect those funds to go toward schools, roads, telecommunications, and defense of our country among many other things. We don’t, however, expect our tax dollars to be funneled to firms that refuse to diversify their ranks.

USA Today and Reveal found that tech firms such as Dell have a long history of denying women and Black people …