Race-Based Discrimination in College Admissions Is Finally Over 

• The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the discriminatory admissions policies of Harvard University and the University of North Carolina, which are identical to the policies of many other American educational institutions, cannot be reconciled with the equal protection guarantees of the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. 
• This decision helps reverse decades of repugnant discriminatory conduct exercised by administrators who punished or rewarded students based not on their credentials, qualifications, and hard work, but on the color of their skin. 
• This is the biggest win for colorblind education since Brown v. Board of Education. 
• More policy changes are necessary. As we look for ways of improving student performance, lawmakers should consider the importance of other factors including opportunities for school choice, the home environments of students, their access to technology, and more. 
• Woke university administrators are now on notice that racial discrimination and the biased admissions systems they implemented no longer have a place in America.  

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Supreme Court Affirms Workers’ Right to Religious Accommodation 

• In Groff v. DeJoy, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the U.S. Postal Service was required to accommodate the request of its employee Gerald Groff to observe a Sunday sabbath because it had not proved that doing so would cause it “undue hardship.” 
• After the Trans World Airlines v. Hardison decision, courts for too long ruled that an employer was under no obligation to accommodate a religious employee’s on-the-job requests if the impact on the operations of that employer was even trivial—a standard unsupported by the text of Title VII itself.
• Thanks to the court’s unanimous decision, the scales of justice have now been level-set. Gerald Groff—and millions of American workers just like him—can be confident that their religious beliefs and practices must be accommodated by their employers to every extent possible.

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The Pay-Cut President Prolongs People's Pain 

• The Biden administration has a proclivity for choosing people with abysmal track records for top political appointments.
• Jared Bernstein, A champion of the economic agenda that created 40-year-high inflation, was recently promoted to Chair of the Council of Economic Advisors. Unfortunately for Americans and their thinning wallets, he clearly hasn’t learned from his mistakes. 
• Bernstein's claims of earnings growth outpacing inflation are false, as real average weekly earnings have fallen 5.1% under Biden, while prices have risen 15.5%. 
• Consumers are going into debt because they cannot afford to live in Biden’s America. Household debt has now eclipsed $17 trillion, and borrowing costs are going through the roof. The average family is paying an extra $1,600 in financing costs today compared to when Biden took office. 

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