WASHINGTON — The senior aides who hold the most sway with members of Congress have grown more diverse in recent years, but still not nearly as diverse as the nation as a whole.
A new study by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies finds that people of color now occupy 18% of the top staff positions in the House — a 4-point increase since 2018, but still much lower than the 40% of Americans who aren’t white.
People of color have more representation among the actual representatives than their closest aides, the report finds: “Over a quarter of voting members of the U.S. House of Representatives sworn into the 117th Congress are people of color, but only 18% of all top House staff.” “We know that top staffers in particular have significant influence and access to members,” said Brenson.
Democrats hire the bulk of high-level staffers of color: 82%. But that still doesn’t match either the 40% of Americans or 37.9% of Democratic voters who aren’t white. Much of that reflects the fact that members of color hire more staffers of color than their white colleagues: Congressional Black Caucus members account for 42.9% of top staffers of color, even though they’re not quite 25% of the Democratic caucus.
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