The increase in overall wage inequality created by the new economy's lower demand for physical labor disproportionately affected minorities as well.

They disproportionately affect racial minorities - who, in New York for example, make up 70 percent of the prison population.

The question is not how policy changes will affect racial minorities, but what will happen to lower- and middle-income families.

A negative ruling might affect ethnic minorities across the nation.

Such decision makers may have little experience of the issues that affect women or ethnic minorities, for example.

But critics, including conservative blacks, say the movement has lost touch with the most important issues affecting blacks and minorities.

Human rights problems that affect sexual minorities are still regrettably common today in the Member States.

It is unacceptable that social exclusion affects the most vulnerable social groups, women and ethnic minorities.

I would like to mention just one of these discriminatory measures, which affects traditional national minorities.

The law on the crime of blasphemy and the death penalty it carries also affect religious minorities in particular.