Federal
Over Hiring of Minorities FY 2004
56% of new federal jobs went to non-whites in
FY 2004
| [July
5, 2005 -- Washington, DC] Today
Adversity.Net released it's fifth annual report of Federal over hiring of selected
minorities.
As in the previous four years, our analysis is based upon the U.S. Office of Personnel
Management's annual report to Congress "Federal Equal Opportunity Recruitment
Program" (FEORP) which constitutes the feds' annual boast-fest about how many
non-white and non-male employees they have hired. |
| OPM's 2005 report
covers federal employment during the federal fiscal year (FY) 2004 which is October 1,
2003 to September 30, 2004. The biggest news
about the 2005 report is that the feds' have dramatically changed the rules of the
game. While the prior four years' reports we have analyzed have used Census 1990
data as the basis by which to measure "underrepresentation" of preferred racial
/ gender groups, the 2005 report uses Census 2000 data as the benchmark.
This means that all of a sudden this year certain, non-white groups are supposedly more
severely "underrepresented" than ever before! The notable exception is
blacks who, for the past four years and including this year, have been and continue to be
very seriously OVER represented in 39 of the 40 federal employer-agencies covered in this
report. |
| 2005 OPM report data suggests: Blacks are, and have been, overrepresented
and should no longer receive any hiring preference.
Hispanics and other non-black
minorities continue to immigrate to our country at a high rate, thereby raising the
"quota bar" so that even more severe racial hiring quotas need to be imposed. |
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President George W. Bush's OPM baldly states the impact of this shift as follows:
"Because there has been a large growth in minority representation in the RCLF
(Relevant Civilian Labor Force) from 1990 to 2000, the benchmark against which Federal
agencies' minority representation is measured has been raised significantly over what it
was in the FY 2003 FEORP (Federal Equal Opportunity Recruitment Program) report.
Source: FEORP FY2004 at p. 12 |
"Although many agencies' minority representation may have increased from 2003 to
2004, such increases were insignificant compared to much larger increases in the RCLF
(Relevant Civilian Labor Force) from 1990 to 2000. "As a result,
more agencies are reflected as underrepresented in this year's report compared to the FY
2003 report."
-- From Page 9 of the FY 2004 FEORP at para. 2 (published Spring 2005). |
Stripping away the federal-speak, the OPM clearly is saying that in spite of decades of
massive racial quotas in federal government employment, and in spite of the resulting huge
employment increases among all preferred racial and gender groups, and in spite of decades
of disproprotionate "attritioning" of white males by the feds [via buyouts, early retirement, and simply refusing
to hire more white guys to replace the retirees], we need to increase our racial quotas
in part because, gosh, so many of our multicultural brethren have crossed our borders
since 1990!
Rhetorical Questions:
But wait! The dubious dual principles of "underrepresentation" and
"lingering effects of discrimination" presume that the beneficiaries of racial
quotas have actually experienced "historic discrimination" in this country,
right?
How, then, do all the new immigrants (both "documented" and, um, illegal) who
arrived in the U.S. since the 1990 census lay claim to "historic discrimination"
or even "lingering effects of discrimination" since they've been here for such a
short time? |
| Of the 37,595 new federal jobs created in FY2004, 21,078 of them
-- 56% -- were filled by minorites. Only 44% of these new federal jobs were filled by
"whites". |
-- Source: FEORP
2004, Page 9 at para. 6 |
Nonetheless, OPM and George W. Bush are asking us to hire even fewer "white
guys" AND impose even stiffer racial quotas for non-black minorities who -- as a
result of massive immigration -- are now presumed to be even more severely
"underrepresented" as defined by the feds.
New Feature This Year:
This year we have added a set of tables which illustrate "the best federal agencies
for each specific minority".
For example, this analysis reveals that the "best" federal employers for meeting
or exceeding their black quotas are not very good at meeting their racial quotas for the
other preferred groups. Similarly, the "best" federal employers of
Asian-Pacific Islanders perform very poorly in meeting their racial quotas for Native
Americans and Hispanics.
These data almost seem to suggest that each federal employer has a "favorite"
minority -- some seem to prefer blacks, while others seem to prefer Hispanics, while still
others seem to prefer Asian-Pacific Islanders.
Specifically, see our analysis of the Five
Best Agencies for each preferred group.
Women:
As always, the OPM's data regarding "women" is confounding. All of OPM's
minority data pertaining to specific races (Hispanic, black or Native American, for
example) include both women and men of that race. But OPM's separate category
"women" includes all of the women from all minority categories as well as
"white" (non-minority) women.
-- Tim Fay, Editor
Download the entire,
original 2005 OPM report with charts and graphs in Acrobat PDF format:
http://adversity.net/fed_stats/OPM2005/feorp2004.pdf
(File size is approx. 530 KB)
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