USDA: department striving to become more diverse

MySanAntonio.com
By William Packwpack@express-news.net
Updated 08:54 p.m., Friday, October 28, 2011

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is serious about becoming a more culturally diverse workplace but will need time to transform itself into the fully representative agency it strives to be, the department's only minority under secretary said Friday.
The department, which admits to having a checkered past regarding civil rights issues, has not attained the racial breakdown in staffing it hopes to accomplish but is working hard to get there, said USDA Under Secretary Edward Avalos.

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