According to my calculations, using population percentages as my standard,- They have too many Blacks, Asians and native Americans and not enough Whites and Hispanics! Lets see if they hire more Whites and Hispanics!
2010 census:
AP
President Barack Obama signed an executive order Thursday directing
federal officials to design a government-wide strategy for making the
federal workforce more diverse.
The three-page order directs the
head of the Office of Personnel Management, a deputy director at the
Office of Management and Budget, the President’s Management Council and
the chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to develop
the strategy within 90 days. Agencies then have 120 days to work the
plan into their hiring and recruiting.
An Office of Personnel
Management report says that in fiscal year 2010, the federal workforce
was 66.2 percent white, 17.7 percent black, 8 percent Hispanic, 5.6
percent Asian/Pacific Islander and 1.8 percent Native American. It was
56.1 percent male.
Obama is planning to unveil job creation
proposals next month. Some black lawmakers and leaders have criticized
him for not directly addressing unemployment among blacks.
Blacks
and Hispanics have been hit hard by the recession and are suffering
unemployment rates of 15.6 percent and 11.3 percent respectively, higher
than the 9.1 percent national average.
Ben Jealous, president of the NAACP, said fighting job discrimination is as important for minorities as job creation.
“We
are a country where it’s easier for a white male with a felony record
to find a job than a black man that has never committed a crime, and
that in itself is a crime,” Jealous said…







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