The City Council approved a bill yesterday that would revise Local Law 129, passed in 2005, which was supposed to increase opportunities for minority and women-owned businesses to get contracts from ...

St. Louis officials are weighing whether to scrap a decades-old program that steered contracts to minority- and women-owned businesses, replacing it with a “race-neutral” initiative. The city already ...

A memo from the US Department of Justice ramps up the pressure on government contractors, universities, nonprofits and other ...

Vancouver is awarding fewer contract dollars to minority- and women-owned businesses than it should under a fair system, according to a disparity study commissioned by the city. The study ...

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Black women entrepreneurs in Memphis say they’re feeling the ripple effects after a new state law ends a program that once ...

By federal law, minority- and women-owned businesses are lumped together as Disadvantaged Business Enterprises. In order to receive federal money for transportation projects, the State must ...

A public-interest law firm has filed federal civil-rights complaints with Attorney General Pam Bondi against New York and Wisconsin on behalf of contractors who say they’re losing millions ...

The Minority Women Enterprise Program, which helped minority women business owners in Memphis, has shut down thanks to a new anti-DEI law.

WASHINGTON -- Minority-owned businesses say they're paying the price for the decision by Congress and the Bush administration to waive certain rules for Hurricane Katrina recovery contracts. About ...

In July 2011 Virginia's Department of Minority Business Enterprise received an exhaustive study on the amount of state contracts won by women-owned and minority-owned businesses. The study found ...