quota system
a system, originally determined by legislation in 1921, of limiting by nationality the number of immigrants who may enter the U.S. each year.
a policy of limiting the number of minority group members in a business firm, school, etc.
any hiring or admissions policy requiring that a specified number or percentage of minority group members be hired or admitted.
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The quota system, perhaps unwittingly, provides judges an incentive to rule in favor of beneficiaries.
Social Security judges must resolve 500 to 700 disputes per year. A watchdog says that might be too many. | Joe Davidson | July 30, 2021 | Washington PostThe situation, dubbed buttergate by the Canadian media, exposed a complicated quota system in Canada that protects dairy producers from price fluctuations but also incentivized and prioritized the industry’s production over consumer preferences.
Starting in the 1970s, then MPAA president Jack Valenti began what was to become a decades-long fight against the quota system.
Propaganda, Protest, and Poisonous Vipers: The Cinema War in Korea | Rich Goldstein | December 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe league is not going to move to the absurdity of a quota system.
Selective Service wanted to eliminate the quota system altogether.
Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965 | Morris J. MacGregor, Jr.
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