“As president, I will make those changes,” Obama wrote to HACU.
Will it be in the form of an executive order, such as the one President Bill Clinton signed three months before leaving office in 2000? That order, created to eliminate the underrepresentation of Hispanics in the federal work force, required the head of every agency and executive department to create a program to recruit Hispanics and push for their career development once they were hired. It also required OPM to take the lead in promoting that diversity.
“I can’t get into that,” Obama transition spokesman Federico de Jesús tells Diverse, but notes that Obama’s cabinet appointments and his White House inner circle have been the most diverse in history. “That’s sort of a preview of what’s to come in other subcabinet- level posts. We’re starting with the cabinet level, but we are committed at having that trickle down.”
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