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Obama Orders Improved Workforce-Diversity Effort

On Aug. 18, President Obama issued an executive order requiring government agencies to develop plans for improving federal workforce diversity. The long-awaited executive order directs a group of high-ranking officials to create a government-wide plan, followed by specific plans in each agency. It marks the highest-profile response to a problem that has been on the administration’s radar: Whites still hold more than 81 percent of senior pay-level positions. Click here to read more.
 
 



INSIGHT Into Diversity