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Researchers are raising questions about the growing array of new digital tools employers are using to streamline the hiring process.
"Proponents of new technologies assert that digital tools eliminate bias and discrimination by attempting to remove humans from the process, but technology is not developed or used in a vacuum," said Rep. Suzanne Bonamici, D-Ore. "A growing body of evidence suggests that left unchecked, digital tools can absorb and replicate systemic biases that are ingrained in the environment in which they are designed."
Every day that school is in session, more than 29 million students receive healthy meals because of the National School Lunch Program—meals that help students focus in the classroom, reduce food insecurity, and improve their overall health.
The Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend, Act, HR 763, will drive down emissions 36% to 38% within 10 years while protecting the poor and middle class from increased costs by returning revenue to all Americans via a monthly dividend.
Congressional Reps. Earl Blumenauer, Suzanne Bonamici and Kurt Schrader have the power to make climate a bridge issue by supporting HR 763. While I work to reduce my carbon footprint, I know their leadership would lessen my unease about toxic partisan politics and our uncertain future.
WASHINGTON, DC [2/6/20] – Today the House passed major legislation to strengthen workers' rights. Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR), Chair of the Education and Labor Committee's Civil Rights and Human Services Subcommittee, co-sponsored the legislation and spoke in favor of it on the House floor.
The Senate's acquittal of President Trump on two articles of impeachment officially brought the trial to an end but hundreds of people in Portland still gathered in a public display of opposition.
Rep. Suzanne Bonamici said, "Acquitting Trump without a fair trial sets a dangerous precedent for current and future Presidents to exploit. History will judge the Senate for failing to uphold its Constitutional duty to provide checks and balances".
Oregon Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici criticized the Senate's acquittal of President Trump Wednesday saying too many members of the body "failed to put country before party."
"Acquitting Trump without a fair trial sets a dangerous precedent for current and future Presidents to exploit," she said. "History will judge the Senate for failing to uphold its Constitutional duty to provide checks and balances."
U.S. Rep. Suzanne Bonamici has pledged her support for immigrants and asylum seekers, who have been political targets of Donald Trump during the three years of his presidency.
Bonamici made her comments Friday, Jan. 31, at a meeting with immigrant advocates and public officials at Virginia Garcia's Beaverton Wellness Clinic. Two weeks earlier, the Oregon Democrat was part of a congressional delegation that visited Brownsville, Texas, and Matamoros, Mexico, for a firsthand look at Trump's policy of requiring asylum seekers to remain in Mexico while their cases are being considered.