Hill Diversity
The American Independent Covers Joint Centers Analysis on House of Representatives Staff Diversity
August 25, 2023
The American Independent mentioned the Joint Center’s analysis of the House of Representatives top staff that provides evidence of the lack of racial diversity within the House.
As The American Independent notes, “According to an October 2022 report published by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, a nonprofit organization, 18% of the people in top staff positions (chiefs of staff, communications directors, policy directors, and staff directors) were people of color. While this was up from the 13.7% identified in the same survey in 2018, in the 2020 U.S. census, 40% of the population identified as people of color.”
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