116th Congress Is The 5th In A Row With Increased Diversity

Posted on the 10 February 2019 by Jobsanger

These charts are from the Pew Research Center. The top chart shows some good news. For the fifth Congress in a row, Congress has become more ethnically diverse. The 116th Congress is the most diverse Congress we have had in this country. That means the Congress looks more like the actual make-up of the country's population than ever before.
But there's also a bit of bad news. Whites still make up more of the 116th Congress (78%) than their percentage of the U.S. population (61%).