Workforce Development Practitioners: Identifying and Reducing Racial Bias to Improve Employment Outcomes for Participants

This Office on Planning, Research and Evaluation brief considers racial bias from the perspective of workforce development practitioners who work with people seeking employment. It describes how racial bias can occur when implementing basic employment processes that affect the employment success of program participants of color. The brief also provides strategies for practitioners to engage employers to change employment processes and help participants overcome racial bias that they may encounter in the lower-wage labor market.