As a percentage, Pat is correct
What government cuts are “looming”? So far all the feds are talking about is reductions in the rate of increase. What departments have been eliminated? What agencies? What programs? Zip Zero Nada.
Oh, I agree with Pat, yes indeed I do!
I doubt seriously that the Obama administration alone is responsible for the demographic statistics of the ethnic or racial representation among Federal employees - other than possibly some recent politically-induced change in the “Latin-American” representation.
Most of the numbers have been a long time accumulating.
And, it is not so much “race” as it is possibly someone’s own social culture out of which someone comes to prefer the employment security of a government job rather than the rough and tumble of making it in the private sector.
African Americans make up 17.4 percent of the federal workforce, as compared to 10.1 percent of the civilian labor force. But the percentage of African Americans drops dramatically with each rise in job grade. They hold 27.6 percent of the lowest positions (GS 1-4), 25.8 percent of GS 5-8, 15.7 percent of GS 9-12, 10.9 percent of GS 13-15 and just 6.9 percent of Senior Pay levels.
I seem to recall a certain pResident announcing just before he left on his latest vacation that he was going to push for more diversity in the feral gubbmint workforce.
I suppose this means that more whites will be hired, right?
Federal government hiring policy began with Carter. It was fairly simple, BW, BM, WW, WM, in that order.
Federal government hiring policy began with Carter. It was fairly simple, BW, BM, WW, WM, in that order.
The affirmative action bean counters tell us if a particular race is not represented in a trade or profession proprtionately to the overall population, it’s because of racism, so there must be racism in federal hiring, as well as the NFL and NBA.
How ironic that the “first black president” will preside over the massive govt job losses and other bennies for africans.
I think it’s great.