False claims: a temp industry lobbyist tries to kill a reform bill by Will Evans - Reveal

Dan Shomon, a lobbyist for an alliance of Illinois temp agencies, argued against a reform bill at a state legislative committee hearing in 2015. Shomon said the bill’s requirement to track the race and gender of job applicants wasn’t necessary: The federal government already collects that data, he told legislators. He had that wrong, but nobody caught the error. He repeated it a few times. See the full story here: https://www.revealnews.org/article/kill-bill-how-illinois-temp-industry-lobbying-quashed-reform/ and at the Chicago Reporter here: http://chicagoreporter.com/growing-temp-industry-shuts-out-black-workers-exploits-latinos/