Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) has the highest share of Asian American or Pacific Islander staffers: 56 percent. Tom Carper (D-Del.), Angus King (I-Maine) and Jon Tester (D-Mont.) have zero Latino staffers in their offices. Martin Heinrich’s office - 48 percent - are Latino, giving the New Mexico Democrat the highest share. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) is the only Democratic senator who has zero Black staffers. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.), one of three Black senators, has the highest share of Black staffers in his office of any Democratic senator: 40 percent. While there’s less definitive data on LGBTQ Americans, the Pew Research Center found last year that 7 percent of American adults are lesbian, gay or bisexual, and 1.6 percent identify as transgender or nonbinary. Sixteen percent of staffers are LBGTQ.The Census Bureau counts Native Hawaiians with other Pacific Islanders, making an exact comparison tough, but American Indians and Alaska Natives make up 1.3 percent of the population. Two percent of staffers are Native American, Alaskan or Native Hawaiian.The Biden administration has proposed adding such a category to the Census but that hasn’t happened yet. Three percent of staffers are Middle Eastern or North African. That’s higher than those groups’ share of the population: 6.3 percent of Americans are Asian, and 0.3 percent are Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander. Ten percent of staffers are Asian American or Pacific Islander.Fifteen percent of staffers are Latino - less than the share of the population that identifies as Hispanic or Latino: 19.1 percent.That’s almost exactly the same as the Black percentage of the population, according to Census estimates: 13.6 percent. Thirteen percent of Democratic Senate staffers are African American, according to the report.
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