CFPB decides all its workers are above average

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Apparently, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was built on the fictional Lake Wobegon, where “all children are above average.”

After an internal survey of CFPB staff evaluations showed that white and nonunion workers had higher average ratings than their nonwhite and nonunionzed co-workers, the bureau scrapped its current system and instead awarded most employees with the highest ratings available.

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