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The Daily Money: Amazon is more diverse (just not at the top)!

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Good morning, Daily Money folks, it's Josh here covering for Nathan while he takes some well-deserved time off. Happy Monday!

When it comes to Amazon, we have a "good news, bad news" situation today. 

While Amazon reported more Black and Hispanic employees than ever, most people in top jobs are still white and male.

Of the 2,610 employees Amazon classified as executives in 2020, 71% were white and 76% were men

My wonderful colleagues Jessica Guynn and Jayme Fraser crunched the numbers for us and in order for Amazon executives to match the demographics of the U.S. workforce, "the company would have had to increase its executive ranks by 954 people of color and 1,285 women."

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