NEW CHALLENGES: THE CIVIL RIGHTS RECORD OF THE CLINTON ADMINISTRATION MID-TERM (1995)

Assesses the performance of the Clinton Administration and offers recommendations to the President and Congress for a stronger civil rights agenda.

The report warns of new threats to Americans' civil rights, including attacks on affirmative remedies for discrimination in education, voting, and employment; threats to funding for education, job training and other social programs for the poor; efforts to cut off benefits for legal as well as illegal immigrants; and failures to develop policies to ameliorate the isolation of people by race and socio-economic status in certain areas. The report also concludes that despite a slow start, the Clinton Administration scored several civil rights successes.

The Commission's report and recommendations draw upon the working papers prepared by leading civil rights and public interest experts which examine the Administration's record in such areas as education, employment, voting, housing, immigration, hate crimes, environmental justice, health, disability rights and the information superhighway. The report also includes in-depth analyses of minority poverty issues, the anti-regulatory agenda of the "Contract with America," and judicial and Executive appointments made by the Administration.