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The U.S. Senate Has a Diversity Problem in Its Staff

The U.S. Senate Has a Diversity Problem in Its Staff

As policy decisions affecting all Americans are debated in the halls of Congress, you will be hard pressed to find people of color in top‐level staff positions. A report released by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies found that the most influential Senate staffers are disproportionately white. Among senior-level Senate staff — chiefs of staff, legislative directors and other folks who ultimately shape the laws we all live by — a mere 7.1 percent are people of color, researchers found, although people of color make up 36% of the U.S. population.

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