Study: History of cultural bias has led to a lack of diversity at liberal green groups

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/study-history-of-cultural-bias-has-led-to-a-lack-of-diversity-at-liberal-green-groups/2014/08/10/9a7ab72a-1739-11e4-9349-84d4a85be981_story.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/study-history-of-cultural-bias-has-led-to-a-lack-of-diversity-at-liberal-green-groups/2014/08/10/9a7ab72a-1739-11e4-9349-84d4a85be981_story.html

A report released last month said the nation’s large, powerful and decidedly liberal green groups have failed to keep pace with the nation’s expanding minority populations and remain overwhelmingly white.

Minorities represent nearly 40 percent of Americans, yet account for fewer than 16 percent of workers at the government agencies, nongovernmental organizations called NGOs and foundations that were studied.