Is it true that companies get tax credits for hiring minorities?

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If so, can someone explain the details?

[Girlfriday]

1. I haven't heard that,

but I do know under welfare to work laws, that companies who hire people trying to get off welfare recieve a subsidy....even if they only pay minimum wage!

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2. Thanks

The assertion that companies get tax credits for hiring minorities sounds implausible to me.

[finecraft]

3. Louisiana Tax Credit program

It is a credit on any state taxes you might owe by hiring someone that is on public assistance, or lives in a census area designated as one that has a high poverty rate. It is a dollar for dollar reduction in any taxes owed, up to $2500. per person hired. The person must be hired for a new position, not just to fill an existing vacant position. It is known as the Enterprise Zone program here. It isn't a tax credit program for minorities specifically, but a majority of the people that are hired through the program are from minority groups.

[Cocoa]

4. Chicago has enterprise zones too

incentives for locating businesses in declining city neighborhoods, to fight the flow of jobs to the suburbs. Like you said, not for minorities directly.

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5. Thanks all

A repuke told me this and I was very skeptical about it.