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New York’s Experiment in Governing by Racial Outcomes

America is about to find out what happens when a municipal government stops merely measuring racial disparities and instead begins organizing its decisions around them.

New York City’s Racial Equity Plan, released Sept. 1 by Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration, is the first citywide racial-equity framework in the Big Apple’s history. It implements a 2022 voter-approved Charter amendment requiring citywide and agency-specific racial-equity blueprints.

Under the plan, 45 agencies will examine racial outcomes across housing, employment, contracting, health, public safety, and other areas of government, touching everything from budgeting and staffing to service delivery and land use.

They will break data down by race and ethnicity, identify disparities, and use that information in shaping policies and allocating resources. Among the plan’s recurring themes are “budget reallocation” and “targeted investment,” along with directing government attention toward historically underserved communities.

As noble as all this might sound to some, the danger is that if this model spreads beyond New York, more governments could move from policing racial discrimination to trying to engineer racial outcomes, with unequal results being used as an excuse for government intervention.

To be sure, there is an obvious reason for officials to collect racial data. If a city agency is discriminating against black applicants, Latino contractors, Asian employees, or anyone else because of race, officials should know about it and put a stop........

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