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Blogger says stats show discrimination at Houston's Metro system
Thu Sep 10 13:59:49 2009 CST
By Jennifer Peebles
Frioman at Politicafe says there's discrimination afoot in Houston's Metro system and displays stats (and multi-colored pie charts) saying that 80% of all Metro bus drivers are black, while just 18 percent of Harris County's population is African-American.

He says:



Harris County residents (taxpayers) should demand an investigation take place and insist that Metro’s overt discriminatory hiring practices be addressed and corrected, including penalizing those found responsible.




Metro responded with a comment. A snippet:



You bring up an interesting observation on the disparity among demographics.

However, it is unfair to call METRO, or any other company discriminatory based solely on one set of statistical variables, one of which is purely raw data. For example, the census information provided does not state what percentages of each group are of legal working age, etc.

One should consider other aspects such as company tenure, qualifications specific to a job, hiring practices and interview processes, and recruiting efforts to name a few.




Read the whole thing here.

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