NHLA ISSUES REPORT TO CONGRESS ON HISPANIC UNDERREPRESENTATION

“Ronald Blackburn-Moreno, President of the 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’s performance over the last five years in advancing the representation of Hispanics in the federal employment today. NHLA’s leadership is releasing the report findings in Washington this week and will review the critical assessment of OPM’s 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 the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, (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.”

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