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September 12, 2023
New Jersey's Teach Workforce Landscape: 2024 Annual Report

The John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey explored workers’ perceptions of and experiences with racial and ethnic discrimination at work, and opinions of diversity, equity, and inclusion policies and practices in November and December 2022 in a landscape study using a comprehensive, national probability-based sample of 3,277 full- and part-time U.S. workers, including:

  • 605 Asian-American workers
  • 915 Black workers
  • 802 Latino workers
  • 955 White workers.1

The study, funded by WorkRise at the Urban Institute, included collaborations with the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) at the University of Chicago and an expert advisory panel.2 In preparing the survey, Heldrich Center researchers completed a comprehensive review of the literature on workplace discrimination, interviewed subject-matter experts, conducted a pilot survey fielded by NORC, and completed 18 individual interviews with workers to test question wording. Following the nationwide survey, Heldrich Center researchers conducted 20 in-depth, one-on-one interviews with workers to explore the nuances of the issues raised in the survey. The study’s quantitative survey data are archived at the Roper Center to encourage further substantive and methodological research.

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