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Related: About this forumFrom July: Inclusv Releases Democratic Presidential Campaign Staff Diversity Estimate
A group called PowerPAC and their diversity initiative INCLUSV tried to estimate how diverse the campaign staff of the Democratic candidates are, based on their July FEC filings.
http://www.powerpacplus.org/inclusv_releases_democratic_presidential_campaign_staff_diversity_estimate
An analysis of the Democratic Presidential staff rosters as reported in FEC filings on July 1st, 2015 show estimates of diverse hires amongst top Presidential campaigns in their initial hiring wave.
INCLUSV, a diversity hiring initiative & project of PowerPAC+, the group who did the Fannie Lou Hamer report audit, recently carried out this analysis by examining the salary and payroll expenditures listed on each candidate's FEC report, matching these expenditures to available information in the voter file, and performing additional quality control analysis based on Inclusvs vast national network. This effort aims to raise awareness and call for campaigns across the progressive infrastructure to make inclusive hiring practices a priority moving forward. Moving forward, the initiative calls for each campaign to internally track and transparently publish diversity figures quarterly.
INCLUSV, a diversity hiring initiative & project of PowerPAC+, the group who did the Fannie Lou Hamer report audit, recently carried out this analysis by examining the salary and payroll expenditures listed on each candidate's FEC report, matching these expenditures to available information in the voter file, and performing additional quality control analysis based on Inclusvs vast national network. This effort aims to raise awareness and call for campaigns across the progressive infrastructure to make inclusive hiring practices a priority moving forward. Moving forward, the initiative calls for each campaign to internally track and transparently publish diversity figures quarterly.
You can see more about their methodology and results at the link, but here's the summary:
White/Black/Latino/Asian by percentage.
Clinton: 68 / 13 / 8 / 8
O'Malley: 91 / 7 / 0 / 2
Sanders: 90 / 3 / 7 / 0
If anyone has updated numbers, I'd be interested as well.
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From July: Inclusv Releases Democratic Presidential Campaign Staff Diversity Estimate (Original Post)
BlueCheese
Nov 2015
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NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)1. Not surprised at all.
BlueCheese
(2,522 posts)2. Shameless kick.
Anyone have any comments?
LWolf
(46,179 posts)3. Get some current data,
and I might have a comment.