Silicon Valley is creating a mostly black and Hispanic underclass of service workers who are paid low wages and few benefits to work inside some of the world’s wealthiest companies, says a report released Monday by Working Partnerships USA.
Blacks and Hispanics in Santa Clara County are 28% of the work force yet make up a tiny percentage of professionals inside technology companies.
Where they dominate instead: the ranks of service workers who struggle to make ends meet in pricey Silicon Valley.
Four out of 10 security guards, seven out of 10 janitors and three-quarters of grounds maintenance workers in Silicon Valley are black or Hispanic, according to the report “Tech’s Diversity Problem: More Than Meets the Eye” from Working Partnerships USA, a nonprofit that advocates for affordable housing, higher wages and access to health care.
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