nearly 18% black is still pretty crazy considering blacks make up like 10% of america and are also usually in the bottom 10% in terms of qualifications.
Date: March 23rd, 2012 10:09 PM Author: concupiscible spot
seriously dude what kind of fucking qualifications do you need to work at the DMV, or as a receptionist at the public health clinic. Blacks make up the majority of public facing positions which requires little education/experience.
As the guy posted above, the stats show that minorities are underrepresented in positions that may actually require qualifications.
Date: July 4th, 2012 1:48 PM Author: Dark boistinker
This.
IDK if the figures here include the postal service or military. But something like 15% of all federal employees work in or around DC, which is a majority black city.
Date: July 5th, 2012 8:41 PM Author: jet-lagged property newt
An empirical matter, but this strikes me as incorrect. I know for example that federal expenditure is something like 80 cent per tax dollar paid for city residents and $1.70 for rural residents. The reason of course is that you can have economies of scale in cities but you need to provide similar services in rural areas. You still need a post office with a couple of staff in a town of 500 for example, while a city of 100K would have maybe only 2-3 offices.
Date: May 27th, 2012 2:36 PM Author: diverse godawful site
do you not realize that these stats show that blacks are overrepresented in senior positions given the underlying distribution of ability in the black population?
The unspoken truth in the fed gov is that minority hiring is taking a huge nosedive. In the past when the private sector actually created good paying jobs, fed gov was seen as a crappy career with crappy future prospects. So those jobs went to non-elite grads , those who were the first to graduate from college in their family, mediocre students, those without good professional connections etc, because they were the only ones who applied.
Now just about everyone applies to any position posted on USAJobs. Since most positions require a "first cut" made on the basis of the numerical score assigned to the applicant, few if any URM's even get to the interview stage. There are no points given to blacks or hispanics. Points are given to vets, especially those who were wounded in action. In 2010 I read that something like 70% of all USAJobs hires were white male Vets. A wounded vet gets 10 points on his application, which means that a perfectly qualified individual (100 points on his app.) will be bypassed by a vet scoring a 91 (moderately qualified and a very easy score to achieve).