DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION IN PUBLIC POLICY DURING THE

TRUMP ADMINISTRATIONBy Marshawn Wolley, CDE, CFRE

MARSHAWN WOLLEYCertified Diversity Executive Lecture of Public AffairsColumnist, Indianapolis Business Journal’s “Forefront Magazine”Immediate Past President of the Exchange at the Indianapolis Urban LeagueNational Advocacy Committee for the National Urban League Young ProfessionalsI am a tweeter @wolley_marshawn

MARSHAWN WOLLEY

Opinions expressed in this presentation are my own

U.S. DEMOGRAPHICS10 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. DEMOGRAPHICS10 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/Trump-Art-Deal-Donald-J/dp/0399594493

UNDERSTANDING TRUMP – ELEMENTS OF THE DEAL1. Think Big2. Protect the Downside and the Upside Will Take Care of Itself3. Maximize Your Options4. Know Your Market5. Use Your Leverage6. Enhance Your Location7. Get the Word Out8. Fight Back 9. Deliver the Goods10. Contain the Costs11. Have Fun

UNDERSTANDING TRUMP – ELEMENTS OF THE DEALApply these ideas to your current job. What can you do in your current role to execute the idea presented?

1. Think Big2. Protect the Downside and the Upside Will Take Care of Itself3. Maximize Your Options4. Know Your Market5. Use Your Leverage

UNDERSTANDING TRUMP – ELEMENTS OF THE DEAL – DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION LESSONS Think Big – Approach the current environment as an opportunity to seek dramatic change within your organization. Seek out firsts and seconds.Target underserved marketsEnhance supplier diversityRevisit organization mission

UNDERSTANDING TRUMP – ELEMENTS OF THE DEAL – DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION LESSONS Protect the Downside and the Upside Will Take Care of ItselfAnticipate 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)

UNDERSTANDING TRUMP – ELEMENTS OF THE DEAL – DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION LESSONS Maximize Your OptionsConsider 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.

UNDERSTANDING TRUMP – ELEMENTS OF THE DEAL – DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION LESSONSKnow Your MarketKnow 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.

UNDERSTANDING TRUMP – ELEMENTS OF THE DEAL – DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION LESSONSUse Your LeverageIt 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 ideological2. Disruptive/Innovative3. Operating in a Political Environment

GOVERNMENTS ROLE TOWARD ITS PUBLICSBenefactorRegulatorCustodianMediator and Advocate EmployerVictimizerConstituent 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 POLICYChildcare 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 POLICYChildcare 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 taxCreate 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 POLICYVeterans Affairs ReformEnsure 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.

https://www.donaldjtrump.com/policies/immigration/

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.https://www.donaldjtrump.com/policies/immigration /

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

TRUMP POLICY Potential Program and Agency Cuts and ReductionsMinority Business Development AgencyEconomic Development AdministrationInternational Trade AdministrationOffice of Violence Against WomenLegal 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-far/

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 POLICYCabinet Secretary Appointments Health and Human Services Housing and Urban DevelopmentAttorney General EPAEEOCSmall Business Administration

CHALLENGE TO DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION PROFESSIONALS

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/Trump-Art-Deal-Donald-J/dp/0399594493

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