Look at that Star! Whooee! Civil Service!
Posted on 01/27/2017 4:40:26 PM PST by SJackson
President Trump’s order this week for an immediate hiring freeze could hurt African Americans more than other workers because they make up a disproportionate share of the federal workforce.
Black workers make up 18 percent of the nation’s 20.6 million federal workers — more than any other minority group. But they account for only 11 percent of employed civilians, a category that includes government and private industry work, and 13 percent of the U.S. population, according to government data.
Government work has played an especially important role in the economic advancement of black Americans, following President John F. Kennedy’s efforts to make the federal government a model for fair hiring at a time blatant racism pervaded the country’s job market.
[No, minority workers are not taking jobs away from white people]
Hundreds of thousands of blacks were able to ascend to the middle class through federal jobs, often attained through mentoring programs and a tight network of African American fraternities and sororities. In addition to nondiscriminatory hiring practices relative to the private sector, government jobs offered security, solid incomes and generous retirement benefits.
“Historically, there’s been no doubt that even before the Civil Rights movement, the black middle class has been built upon government employment, and no more so than in the Washington, D.C. area,” said Nelson Lichtenstein, a history professor at the University of California at Santa Barbara, where he leads the Center for the Study of Work, Labor and Democracy. “The freeze will disproportionately hurt African Americans. There is no doubt about that.”
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Oh, well, the party’s over.
“minorities and women will suffer most.”
Where have I heard that before?
The black woman lawyer Trump hired out to blast this assertion and point out black people DON’T exist in this country just to work for the government. They have much more potential than that bigotry of low and slow expectations!
WaPo is freaking nuts.
Sun to go supernova — all life to be extinguished. Women and Minorities hit hardest.
MSM meme:
Minorities, women and children hardest hit.
Look at that Star! Whooee! Civil Service!
More agitprop from the Compost .. a failing fake news company totally bereft of any big girl panties.
I rather doubt this is true. My guess is that Pres. Trump intends to reduce the government payroll through attrition of Washington, D.C. bureaucrats. Those are more of the white Bernie Sanders prog type. My further guess is that black government workers are the working hands of the federal government. Representatives in a Social Security office in Orlando or mail carriers in Philadelphia will be safe.
they make up a disproportionate share of the federal workforce.
So the Fed govt exists to provide paychecks for specific identity groups?
Perspective lost.
Black in government suffer more because they are 80% over represented in government already, and that ratio won’t be able to continue to be increasingly raised when a hiring freeze is put in place?
WaPo is freaking nuts.
Nailed it. Completely twisted logic. Black workers are way overrepresented in government position now.
So to freeze hiring, somehow hurts black workers more? Say What?
All Trump is doing is laying off Democrat voters in DC.
No wonder the Washington Post is having a cow.
Border Patrol and the military will be hiring.
Fake news about affirmative action.
Like Trump is arbitrarily firing black employees.
I dont care what color or race they are, I want the fedgov behemoth to be greatly reduced.
Fedgov is a negative job. They dont create anything. They subsist off productive businesses.
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