How Corporate America Kept Its Diversity Promise: A Week of Big Take
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Demonstrators stand in front of a Whole Foods Market in July of 2020 to support workers who were dismissed for wearing Black Lives Matter face masks in Cambridge, Mass.
Photographer: Erin Clark/Getty ImagesMass protests sparked by the murder of George Floyd in 2020 led to a flurry of company promises, both specific and vague, to hire and promote more Black people and others from underrepresented groups.
Overall job growth in 2021 included 20,524 White workers. The other 302,570 jobs — or 94% of the headcount increase — went to people of color.