The Department also conducted various antiracism training sessions totaling $53,000 over the two-year span.” “Within this budget was a full-time ‘DEI staff person,’ who earned $163,639 in salary and benefits in FY2020-21 and $171,747 in the following year. “This was part of a budget of $854,000 for the Department’s Office of Workplace Equality in FY2020-21, which grew to over $906,000 the following year,” CORE wrote. Kendi’s cornerstone critical race theory book, “How to Be an Antiracist,” specifically to be handed out to staff including ‘Supervising’ and ‘Senior’ oil and gas engineers in the Department’s Geologic Energy Management division,” with one email flagged as “high priority.”Įlite NYC private schools are teaching kids that American society must be destroyedĪdditionally, the California Department of Water Resources was also another source of DEI spending, spending “over $414,000 on DEI goals over FY2020 and FY2021.” The Department of Conservation also spent $9,000 on copies of Ibram X. Several entities in the report spent state tax dollars on woke initiatives, such as the state Department of Fish and Wildlife, which spent “$49,500 in contracts for ‘racial equity’ trainings and workshops for employees),” and the California High-Speed Rail Authority, which dropped “nearly $29,000 in consultants budgeted in FY2021-22 as part of its effort to form a Diversity Task Force.”Ĭalifornia’s Department of Conservation dropped nearly $180,000 on DEI initiatives, in FY2020-2021 that “included nearly $88,000 in training geared toward critical race theory and racial equity themes from contractors well connected within the state of California.” “This data indicates that so-called ‘Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion’ is easily worth $1 billion in Golden State spending.” A nonprofit says that California has spent almost half a billion dollars on DEI initiatives.
“This report provides cautious estimates of DEI-relevant spending and accounts for the proportion of outstanding requests for records,” the report reads. “The results are unmistakable: spending related to DEI and critical race theory-framed activities is a vast and growing component of taxpayer-funded spending at all levels of California government.”ĬORE received a response for almost half of their sunshine law inquiries, reporting that the Golden State has “spent nearly half a billion dollars on DEI projects alone” from the data received “with a majority of responses encapsulating FY2020 through FY2022.” “This analysis summarizes the results of nearly 400 California Public Records Act requests sent to state and local governments, as well as higher education institutions and K-12 school districts,” the report reads. “Instead of effectively addressing issues like housing, crime or homelessness, California officials have chosen to line the pockets of well-connected diversity consultants,” he continued.įox News Digital exclusively obtained the new report, which wrote that California “public institutions seized the opportunity to expand their budgets and implement ultraprogressive policies often without public awareness.” The California Department of Conservation reportedly spent $9,000 on “How to be an Antiracist” by Ibram X. “It’s everywhere from kindergarten classrooms to the Department of Fish and Wildlife.”
“Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is becoming California’s newest billion-dollar industry-on the taxpayer’s dime,” CORE lead researcher Will Coggin told Fox News Digital on Monday. The Center for Organizational Research and Education (CORE), a consumer protection nonprofit, called DEI initiatives the Golden State’s “next billion-dollar industry” in their new report on California’s critical race theory-based spending. Texas father shoots teens who attempted to rob car with infants insideĬalifornia firefighters make progress on Yosemite wildfireĬan Biden be ‘pushed aside’ if he insists on re-election?Ī conservative nonprofit estimated that California has spent over $500 million on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, including spending nearly $50,000 on “racial equity” trainings for the state Fish and Wildlife Department.
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