Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Policy Under Trump Administration

DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND
INCLUSION IN PUBLIC POLICY
DURING THE TRUMP
ADMINISTRATION
By Marshawn Wolley, CDE,
CFRE

MARSHAWN WOLLEY
Certified Diversity Executive
Lecture of Public Affairs
Columnist, Indianapolis Business Journal’s “Forefront Magazine”
Immediate Past President of the Exchange at the Indianapolis Urban
League
National Advocacy Committee for the National Urban League Young
Professionals
I am a tweeter @wolley_marshawn

MARSHAWN WOLLEY
Opinions expressed in this presentation are my own

U.S. DEMOGRAPHICS
10 demographic trends that are shaping the U.S. and the world
1) Americans are more racially and ethnically diverse than in the past, and the U.S. is
projected to be even more diverse in the coming decades.
2) Asia has replaced Latin America (including Mexico) as the biggest source of new
immigrants to the U.S.
3) America’s demographic changes are shifting the electorate-and American politics.
4) Millennials, young adults born after 1980, are the largest U.S. generation surpassing the
Baby Boomers.
5) Women’s role in the labor force and leadership positions has grown dramatically.
Pew Research 3-31-201 10 Demographic Trends That are Shaping the U.S. and the World.
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/03/31/10-demographic-trends-that-are-
shaping-the-u-s-and-the-world/

U.S. DEMOGRAPHICS
10 demographic trends that are shaping the U.S. and the world
6) The American family is changing. Adults who have never been married is at an historic high.
7) The share of Americans who live in middle class households is shrinking.
8) Christians are declining as a share of the U.S. population, and the number of U.S. adults who do
not identify with any organized religion has grown.
9) The world’s religious makeup will look a lot different by 2050.
10) The world is aging.
Pew Research 3-31-201 10 Demographic Trends That are Shaping the U.S. and the World.
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/03/31/10-demographic-trends-that-are-shaping-
the-u-s-and-the-world/

SCOPE OF PRESENTATION
Share policy and advocacy issues that we should be
aware of in the Diversity & Inclusion space.
1) Understanding Trump
2) Trump and Diversity and Inclusion Lessons
3) Policy Issues
4) Challenge for Diversity and Inclusion Professionals
Last accessed 1-23-2017
Trump: The Art of Deal
https://www.amazon.com/T
rump-Art-Deal-Donald-
J/dp/0399594493

UNDERSTANDING TRUMP –
ELEMENTS OF THE DEAL
1. Think Big
2. Protect the Downside and the Upside Will Take Care of Itself
3. Maximize Your Options
4. Know Your Market
5. Use Your Leverage
6. Enhance Your Location
7. Get the Word Out
8. Fight Back
9. Deliver the Goods
10. Contain the Costs
11. Have Fun

ELEMENTS OF THE DEAL
Apply these ideas to your current job. What can you do in your current
role to execute the idea presented?
1. Think Big
2. Protect the Downside and the Upside Will Take Care of Itself
3. Maximize Your Options
4. Know Your Market
5. Use Your Leverage

ELEMENTS OF THE DEAL –
DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION
LESSONSThink Big – Approach the current environment as an opportunity to
seek dramatic change within your organization.
Seek out firsts and seconds.
Target underserved markets
Enhance supplier diversity
Revisit organization mission

LESSONSProtect the Downside and the Upside Will Take Care of Itself
Anticipate the worst possible scenarios and have a plan that produces an
outcome you can live with. (Risk mitigation)
Identify partnerships that might assist with initiatives that might be
challenged (Avoid)
Develop risk mitigation strategies for key personnel (Control)
Enlist executive leadership (Transfer)

LESSONSMaximize Your Options
Consider multiple objectives.
Be prepared to move on multiple fronts.
You may lose some but if you are flexible you can win other battles
simply because you have thought through other options.

LESSONSKnow Your Market
Know who the players are when pursuing proposals.
Know who might be a good fit for new hires or as a new contractor.
Don’t exclude people.
Engage everyone.

LESSONSUse Your Leverage
It is no secret that there is significant anxiety in the country right now.
This is called leverage.
 Do you have new allies?
Do you think excitement about tax reform is an opportunity for
diversity and inclusion professionals?
If you anticipate an economic downturn (or even improvement) is this
an opportunity to explore different markets?

TRUMP POLICY AND DIVERSITY
AND INCLUSION
1. Not ideological
2. Disruptive/Innovative
3. Operating in a Political Environment

GOVERNMENTS ROLE TOWARD ITS
PUBLICS
Benefactor
Regulator
Custodian
Mediator and Advocate
Employer
Victimizer
Constituent and Client

IMPLEMENTATION AND EVALUATION
Three levels of meaning for public policy
Policy-in-intentions, the stated aims of the policy makers as
expressed in the laws and regulations that frame the policy.
Policy-in-implementation, the domain of administrators who carry it
out more or less consistently with the intentions—providing the
outputs defined in the policy.
Policy-in-experience, the outcomes and impacts of the policy for its
target populations (and any others) for better or worse.

TRUMP POLICY
Childcare Reforms
Rewriting the tax code to allow working parents to deduct from their income taxes child care
expenses for up to four children and elderly dependents.
 Allow parents to enroll in tax-free dependent care savings accounts for their children or
elderly relatives.
 Provide low-income households an Expanded Earned Income Tax Credit – in the form a
Childcare rebate – and a matching $500 contribution for their savings accounts.
 Creating a new, dynamic market for family-based and community-based solutions.
 Incentivizing employers to provide childcare at the workplace.
 Provide 6 weeks of paid leave to new mothers before returning to work.
Trump Pence: Make America Great Again! https://www.donaldjtrump.com/policies/child-care/

TRUMP POLICY
Childcare Reforms:
1. Help every family with the costs of childcare and eldercare.
2. Empower families to choose the care that is right for their family.
3. Create a new, dynamic market for family-based and community-based
solutions.
4. Incentivize employers to provide childcare at the workplace.
5. Provide 6 weeks of paid leave to new mothers before returning to work.
https://assets.donaldjtrump.com/Childcare_Reform.pdf

TRUMP POLICY
Childcare Reforms:
Exclude the costs of child and elder care from tax
Create child care savings accounts (includes elder care)
Create a new, dynamic market for family-based and community based
solutions (childcare options)
Incentivize employers to provide childcare at the workplace
https://assets.donaldjtrump.com/Childcare_Reform.pdf

TRUMP POLICY
Veterans Affairs Reform
Ensure our veterans get the care they need wherever and whenever they need it. No more
long drives. No more waiting backlogs. No more excessive red tape. Just the care and
support they earned with their service to our country.
Support the whole veteran, not just their physical health care, but also by addressing their
invisible wounds, investing in our service members' post-active duty success,
transforming the VA to meet the needs of 21st century service members, and better
meeting the needs of our female veterans.
 Make the VA great again by firing the corrupt and incompetent VA executives who let our
veterans down, by modernizing the VA, and by empowering the doctors and nurses to
ensure our veterans receive the best care available in a timely manner.
https://www.donaldjtrump.com/policies/veterans-affairs-reform/

TRUMP POLICY
Immigration
Prioritize the jobs, wages and security of the American people.
Establish new immigration controls to boost wages and to ensure that open
jobs are offered to American workers first.
Protect the economic well-being of the lawful immigrants already living here
by curbing uncontrolled foreign worker admissions
Select immigrants based on their likelihood of success in the U.S. and their ability
to be financially self-sufficient. (Guest worker programs)
Vet applicants to ensure they support America’s values, institutions and people,
and temporarily suspend immigration from regions that export terrorism and
where safe vetting cannot presently be ensured.
Enforce the immigration laws of the United States and restore the Constitutional
rule of law upon which America’s prosperity and security depend.
https://www.donaldjtrump.com/policies/immigration/

TRUMP POLICY
Immigration- Ten Point Plan
1. Begin working on an impenetrable physical wall on the southern border, on day one. Mexico
will pay for the wall.
2. End catch-and-release. Under a Trump administration, anyone who illegally crosses the
border will be detained until they are removed out of our country.
3. Move criminal aliens out day one, in joint operations with local, state, and federal law
enforcement. We will terminate the Obama administration’s deadly, non-enforcement
policies that allow thousands of criminal aliens to freely roam our streets.
4. End sanctuary cities.
5. Immediately terminate President Obama’s two illegal executive amnesties. All immigration
laws will be enforced - we will triple the number of ICE agents. Anyone who enters the U.S.
illegally is subject to deportation. That is what it means to have laws and to have a country.

TRUMP POLICY
Immigration- Ten Point Plan
6. Suspend the issuance of visas to any place where adequate screening
cannot occur, until proven and effective vetting mechanisms can be put into
place.
7. Ensure that other countries take their people back when we order them
deported.
8. Ensure that a biometric entry-exit visa tracking system is fully
implemented at all land, air, and sea ports.
9. Turn off the jobs and benefits magnet. Many immigrants come to the U.S.
illegally in search of jobs, even though federal law prohibits the employment
of illegal immigrants.
10. Reform legal immigration to serve the best interests of America and its
workers, keeping immigration levels within historic norms.

TRUMP POLICY
DACA and DAPA
Deferred Actions for Childhood Arrivals
Deferred Actions for Parents of Americans and Lawful
Permanent Residents

TRUMP POLICY
Potential Program and Agency Cuts and Reductions
Minority Business Development Agency
Economic Development Administration
International Trade Administration
Office of Violence Against Women
Legal Services Corporation
Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department (funding reduction)
Overseas Private Investment Corporation
http://thehill.com/policy/finance/314991-trump-team-prepares-
dramatic-cuts

TRUMP POLICY
Ten Executive Actions Signed by President Trump:
1. ACA rollback. Mr. Trump has allowed all agency heads to waive requirements
of the Affordable Care Act to the “maximum extent permitted by law.”
2. Regulation freeze. The president has frozen all regulations now in process
(but not approved) until they are approved by him or an agency after he took
office.
3. Abortion. President Trump has ordered that federal dollars cannot go to
organizations that provide abortion services.
4. TPP. This memorandum withdraws the United States from all Trans-Pacific
Partnership negotiations and from signing the trade deal.
5. Federal hiring freeze. The president has told agencies they cannot fill any
vacant positions nor open new ones, with two exceptions: military personnel
and critical public safety positions.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/10-executive-actions-trump-signed-

TRUMP POLICY
Ten Executive Actions Signed by President Trump:
6 + 7. Allowing Keystone and Dakota Access Pipelines. Makes construction of
the controversial pipelines easier.
8. Pipelines must hire American. Action requires that pipelines be built by
American workers.
9. Expediting permits for infrastructure. Action is aimed at making high-priority
infrastructure get through permitting procedures more quickly.
10. Speeding up environmental review/regulation. Aimed at expediting the
environmental review process for some projects.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/10-executive-actions-trump-signed-
far/

TRUMP POLICY
Cabinet Secretary Appointments
Health and Human Services
Housing and Urban Development
Attorney General
EPA
EEOC
Small Business Administration

CHALLENGE TO DIVERSITY AND
INCLUSION PROFESSIONALS

THE BELOVED COMMUNITY
But the end is reconciliation; the end is redemption; the end is the creation
of the beloved community. It is this type of spirit and this type of love that
can transform opposers into friends. It is this type of understanding goodwill
that will transform the deep gloom of the old age into the exuberant
gladness of the new age. It is this love which will bring about miracles in the
hearts of men.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
From “Facing the Challenge of a New Age,” 1956
http://www.wearethebelovedcommunity.org/bcquotes.html

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