[blisterpeanuts]

Less than 1%. 45,000/400 = 0.89%. It was reported that they were not critical workers. Perhaps some will be rehired. A review of hiring procedures is underway.

It's recently been revealed that not only does the FAA require a "biography" of its ATC applicants, but have even been coaching black candidates how to use the keywords that will allow their applications to float to the top.

If the agency and the politicians overseeing it cared about safety, shouldn't they try to hire the best and the brightest, not the under-represented minorities that they have been struggling to hire in recent years? Meanwhile, White applicants who were fully qualified have been bypassed.

I personally don't care, and I suspect most thinking people don't care, what the ethnicity or gender are of the people in the towers. But we all care very deeply that they should be the very best of the best.

[notahacker]

It's interesting that you have fewer concerns about the safety implications of firing regulators before taking the time to establish what they do or why they were hire/promoted, never mind their competence than you do about the safety implications of underrepresented groups receiving advice on job applications. I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that arbitrary firings damage organizations (and indeed qualified white people's employment prospects) more than interviewing a few more black people.