Indeed!
But; since the 'WHY' has NOT been defined (to everyone's liking) then it is all a useless exercise; being engaged in for, as you've pointed out, "making policy decisions".
In which case, the government has no business spending $billions, and forcing businesses to incur untold $billions in costs, on enhancement programs and affirmative action, unless we can be sure they will have results.
So far, they haven't. Therefore they should be shut down until we DO have evidence that they will fix things.