By Alyssa Rosenberg
The federal government's workforce grew more diverse in fiscal 2007, but women and Hispanics still are underrepresented when compared to the civilian labor force, according to a new report from the Office of Personnel Management.
"Once again, this year's report shows the federal government is committed to building a high-performance workforce drawn from the strengths of America's diversity," OPM Director Linda Springer wrote in the introduction to the annual report on the Federal Equal Opportunity Recruitment Program.
The study, which analyzed agencies with 500 or more permanent workers, found that 32.8 percent of federal employees were minorities in fiscal 2007 as compared to 28.2 percent of the civilian labor force.
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