{"id":7709,"date":"2026-06-02T09:38:50","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T09:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africanamericanvoice.net\/?p=7709"},"modified":"2026-07-10T09:56:33","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T09:56:33","slug":"a-new-economic-civil-rights-struggle-disappearing-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africanamericanvoice.net\/?p=7709","title":{"rendered":"A New Economic Civil Rights Struggle \u2014 Disappearing Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by\u00a0<span class=\"author vcard\"><a class=\"url fn n\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtoninformer.com\/author\/eric-morrissette\/\">Eric Morrissette<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If discrimination cannot be measured, it becomes far harder to challenge \u2014 legally, politically, or publicly. That is why the dismantling of federal economic data collection may become one of the most consequential civil-rights reversals of this era.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For generations, America\u2019s civil-rights framework has\u00a0operated\u00a0on a simple premise: inequality can be measured. Mortgage lending disparities. Redlining. Employment discrimination. Unequal access to capital. None of these were exposed because institutions voluntarily admitted wrongdoing. They were uncovered because data was collected, analyzed, and tested in courts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Civil Rights Act does not require proving that someone is personally racist. It requires proving that a policy creates a measurable, disproportionate harm to one group \u2014 a legal standard known as \u201cdisparate impact.\u201d Without data, that standard becomes extraordinarily hard to meet.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"scaip scaip-1    \">\n<div class=\"newspack_global_ad scaip-1 fixed-height\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-caf9af3267-0\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This administration has moved aggressively to dismantle the federal data infrastructure that makes economic disparity visible. It proposed\u00a0eliminating\u00a0the EEO-1 form: the only federally collected source of business-level data on employment by race, ethnicity, sex, and job category. This would strip the EEOC of its primary tool for\u00a0identifying\u00a0discriminatory hiring patterns. An executive order moved to\u00a0eliminate\u00a0the Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA) entirely. This agency, which I led as Acting Under Secretary, was designed by law to function as the country\u2019s clearinghouse for minority business data, and in a single year\u00a0facilitated\u00a0$1.5 billion\u00a0in capital access for minority-owned firms.\u00a0Perhaps most\u00a0notably, President Trump signed an executive order directing federal agencies to roll back the use of the disparate impact standard \u201cin all contexts to the maximum degree\u201d \u2014 across housing, lending, employment, education, and healthcare. This\u00a0represents\u00a0a strategy, not a series of coincidences.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The May 1 rollback of Section 1071 of the Dodd-Frank Act follows this pattern. This provision required financial institutions to collect and report data on small-business loan applications \u2014 specifically tracking the race, ethnicity, and gender of business owners to ensure equitable access to credit. By measuring credit deserts and lending disparities, it created public accountability designed to detect and prevent discriminatory lending against minority-owned and women-owned businesses. House Financial Services ranking member Maxine Waters put it plainly: the updated rule \u201cguts the very data small businesses and the public need,\u201d not by streamlining compliance, but by shielding bad actors and limiting transparency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This data is critical to solving the problem of disparity. I saw this dynamic when running the MBDA. Capital access for socially and economically disadvantaged groups was a binding constraint to their growth and success. Reliable data showed that, when everything else was held equal, women and people of color were charged more for capital and received less of it. The solution to that problem is not suppressing its evidence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In effect,\u00a0eliminating\u00a0the data can functionally\u00a0eliminate\u00a0the claim.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to 2024 Federal Reserve data, 39% of Black-owned business loan applications result in denial \u2014 more than double the rate for white-owned businesses, and the highest rejection rate of any demographic group tracked. If race data is no longer collected in meaningful detail, proving that disparity is the product of discrimination requiring enforcement action becomes exponentially harder. That is why the scale of\u00a0the Section\u00a01071 rollback carries far-reaching implications. It changes the ground on which future economic civil rights cases will stand or fall.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"scaip scaip-2    \">\n<div class=\"newspack_global_ad scaip-2 fixed-height\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-2bd992b9b0-0\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is happening at the precise moment courts, following a series of conservative rulings, are demanding more rigorous evidence of disparate impact to justify policy intervention. I experienced this firsthand when a federal court struck down a portion of the MBDA Act in\u00a0Nuziard\u00a0v. Minority Business Development Agency, citing insufficient evidence of disparate impact \u2014 principles amplified after the Supreme Court\u2019s decision in\u00a0Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard\u00a0that ended race-conscious affirmative action\u202fin college admissions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The\u00a0people\u00a0expediting\u00a0disparity are\u00a0simultaneously being told to prove more and stripped of the tools to prove anything.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Data does not predetermine outcomes. It does not guarantee that discrimination claims\u00a0will succeed. It\u00a0just\u00a0allows society to see. And increasingly, that visibility itself\u00a0appears to be\u00a0what is under attack.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We have likely all had this nagging question at some point \u2014 is it just me? When we suspect something that feels like more than coincidence. The ability to look critically at the data around us helps maintain our bearings and our sanity. You are not losing it. This thing is happening to you. With that knowledge, you can adjust, seek redress, demand accountability. 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