(NNPA)—Long before this month’s damning report from the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies that revealed a stunning lack of diversity among top staff in the U.S. Senate, Nevada Democratic Senator Harry Reid formed a means to assist offices with identifying and hiring a more diverse workforce.
Reid started the Democratic Diversity Initiative that, in addition to assisting with a more diverse workforce, would help those who want to work on Capitol Hill with understanding and navigating the job search process.
“A Senate workforce that reflects the diversity of our nation and is demographically representational of the constituents we serve,” Reid said of the initiative. “Our concept of diversity and inclusion embraces differences in race, ethnicity, religion, disability and sexual orientation as well as recognizes the military service of our veterans.”
On Dec. 8, the D.C.-based Joint Center—an African-American think tank—revealed that just 7 percent of the top staffers in the U.S. Senate are people of color, far below minorities’ representation in the population of the United States.
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