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Historic Value Of Affirmative Action

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Does affirmative action help or hurt those who have historically experienced discrimination? Some would say it condemns those it is trying to help to not gaining the skills to move up. Others say the wall - or the glass ceiling - is just too hard to break through for any kind of equality to be achieved. What do you think?

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The answer to this problem explains affirmative action. The references related to the answer are also included.

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Affirmative action helps those who have historically experienced discrimination. Even though some would say that affirmative action condemns those it is trying to help to not getting the skills to move up, there are several reasons why affirmative action helps the discriminated(1). Affirmative action helps because ...

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