How Localities Can Ensure Racial Diversity in Subsidized Tech Jobs

Big Tech has gotten billions in public subsidies in exchange for promises of good jobs. But they have made little progress addressing the significant underrepresentation of workers of color, especially women of color, in their tech jobs. Local governments have a unique opportunity to address this troubling lack of diversity by conditioning subsidies - which can amount to millions of dollars per job - for big tech companies on local and equitable hiring standards.