Target is scaling back its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs, joining other major companies including Meta, Walmart, and McDonald's.

The number of companies ending their diversity, equity, and inclusion programs continues to grow.

Several major companies like Target, Walmart and McDonald’s have begun to roll back DEI programs in the wake of a Republican-driven effort to disband the push for workplace and school equality.

Target, which operates nearly 2,000 stores nationwide and employs more than 400,000 people, said it already had planned to end the racial program this year. The company said Friday that it also would conclude the diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI, goals it previously set in three-year cycles.

Meta confirms Axios report that the company is is axing its diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, including for hiring and training.

Several U.S. companies like Meta and Walmart cut back DEI initiatives before President Trump's executive order removed federal DEI programs.

A group of shareholders and state attorneys general sent letters to Walmart's CEO urging him to reconsider ending its DEI programs after the retailer announced policy changes.

Target shared a memo with employees that the company will be abandoning its diversity, equity, and inclusion policies, following in the footsteps of major companies such as Walmart and McDonald’s. “Many years of data,

A number of prominent companies have scaled back or set aside the diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives that much of corporate America endorsed following the protests that accompanied the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd,

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MSNBC host Rev. Al Sharpton spoke to his supporters about encouraging diversity and equity in companies during a Martin Luther King, Jr. rally on Monday.