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Racially diverse freshman class hires same

Posted by Keturah Hetrick on Feb. 1, 2021

The 117th Congress is the most racially diverse in House history - and the freshman class's hiring represents that.

Freshman representatives of both parties have hired a higher proportion of non-white staffers than have their longer-serving peers, according to LegiStorm data. Staffers to Democratic freshman members are 47 percent non-white, compared to 35 percent of all Democratic House staffers. Among GOP freshman members, 11 percent of staffers are non-white, versus eight percent among all Republican representatives.

Non-white and non-Hispanic Americans make up about 40 percent of the U.S. population.