House leaders launch program aimed at increasing racial diversity of staffers

House leaders launched a much-discussed program on Tuesday to increase racial diversity among congressional staff by intensifying recruitment and retention efforts. The initiative, launched by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio), comes in the wake of a study that revealed only 13 percent of House chief of staffs were minorities.

The House initiative creates several programs to increase the hiring of top-ranking minority employees, including a diversity-oriented awareness program and a ''resume bank'' 'targeting' diverse candidates...

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