San Diego County Hotel-Motel Association joins White House meeting on immigrant integration

SAN DIEGO, Calif. – The San Diego County Hotel-Motel Association (HMA) joined New American Workforce and 20 other businesses from across the country for a meeting at the White House on immigrant integration efforts. The meeting on Thursday, July 23 brought together businesses who provide citizenship services to their employees with the White House, the…

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Microsoft supports the Equality Act

This morning, Microsoft announced its support for The Equality Act, a comprehensive federal LGBT non-discrimination legislation. “To create technology that empowers the world, we need to reflect the diversity of the world,” Microsoft said in a statement. “Supporting diversity, inclusiveness and equal treatment is not just good for business, it is also the right thing…

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San Diego Unified rolls out strategic plans for Youth Advocacy Office

The San Diego Unified School District’s Office of Youth Advocacy today outlined an innovative long-term strategic plan for closing the achievement gap with improved student supports and awareness, including specific steps to provide greater supports and training to address needs of an increasingly diverse student body and to assure equitable outcomes for all students. The…

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New report reinforces need for more affordable housing in San Diego

SAN DIEGO – San Diego Housing Federation says the report released today, Linking Innovation with Inclusion: Demography, Equity, and the Future of San Diego, shows “linking people and place” through affordable housing policies moves all of San Diego forward equitably and sustainably. Conducted by University of Southern California Program for Environmental and Regional Equity, the…

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Tourism chiefs seek ideas from LGBT community for measuring tourist behavior

In a competition with prizes worth 22,000€ ($24,000), the Gay European Tourism Association has teamed up with the Lisbon MBA and the Portuguese Tourism Board to find new ideas and technologies for measuring the behavior of holiday makers when they visit countries and cities. The competition is seeking to create new tools that allow measurement…

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American Airlines, Facebook, General Mills, Google and Nike announce support for federal LGBT non-discrimination protections

Today, just days after the introduction of the historic Equality Act in Congress, five new major American companies announced their support for comprehensive, federal LGBT non-discrimination protections.  Each of these new leading corporations – American Airlines, Facebook, General Mills, Google and Nike demonstrated their belief that all LGBT Americans should have the protections from discrimination…

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Presidential proclamation — World Hepatitis Day, 2015

Today the White House released the following presidential proclamation regarding World Hepatitis Day, July 28, 2015: Around the world, doctors, medical researchers, and other professionals dedicated to health care and public health are working hard every day to combat disease and build healthier communities. Their efforts have led to improved sanitation, cleaner water, better access…

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Finishing the work for dignity: Let’s end workplace discrimination in 2015

U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy, in his historic June 26, 5-4 majority opinion in Obergefell v. Hodges, used the word “dignity” nine times. The decision ended state same-sex marriage bans in favor of same-sex wedding bands. Media headlined “dignity” across the nation and the world, forever associating the word with the LGBT struggle…

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