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NHLA Issues Report to Congress on Hispanic Underrepresentation |
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| Published on August 21, 2006 |
Ronald Blackburn-Moreno, president and CEO of ASPIRA Association, and chairman of the board of the National Hispanic Leadership Agenda (NHLA), a nonpartisan coalition of the leading national Hispanic public policy and civil rights organizations, presented NHLA’s evaluation of the government performance over the last five years in advancing the representation of Hispanics in the federal workforce.
“The federal government touches all aspects of our lives,” said Blackburn Moreno.“NHLA is concerned by the lack of Hispanic representation in federal employment and is alarmed by signs that Hispanic representation is declining at a time when U.S. population of Hispanics is at its highest.A government that does not reflect the people it serves will always struggle to deliver services in an efficient and democratic manner.”
NHLA’s leadership released the full report to Washington lawmakers in August and will review the critical assessment of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management’s (OPM) performance on Hispanic underrepresentation with Hispanic civic leaders and government employees.
The evaluation is based on NHLA’s analysis of Federal Equal Opportunity Recruitment Program statistical reports from 2000-2005, and other government agency reports which address OPM’s performance on minority participation in the federal workforce.The report documents that Hispanic representation in the federal government has worsened over the past five years.Stating that OPM had failed to implement effective recruitment programs and accountability measures to address the Underrepresentation of Hispanics in the federal workforce, NHLA gave OPM an “F” for their poor performance.
The report states:
“Despite OPM’s pronouncements extolling an increase in Hispanic federal representation, the reality is that the underrepresentation of Hispanics in the federal workforce is getting worse.Hispanics have and continue to be the only underrepresented minority group in the federal government and the growing level of Hispanic underrepresentation in the federal workforce is a direct result of OPM’s failure to implement effective hiring and employment retention practices.
The GAO is expected to release its report in September 2006.
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