The state will begin rolling out a formal study over the next year to gauge how much of the approximately $1 billion in annual public contracts go to businesses owned by women and people of color, a ...

Set asides and goals help level the small biz playing field. When discussing state supplier diversity, words matter. In the 1980s, Richmond, Virginia had a race-based “set aside” program for ...

The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently ruled that agencies are not required to follow the small business “rule of two” when issuing task orders under the GSA Federal Supply Schedule ...

A Virginia bill that would expand how the state awards contracts is drawing attention as it heads to first-term Democratic ...

Last week’s revocation of federal affirmative action requirements was accompanied by a statement from the Trump administration stating its intent to eliminate any federal program that promotes DEI ...

San Francisco lawmakers are beginning to take a hard look at the long-term consequences of the city’s abundant use of budget set-asides — voter-approved ballot measures that mandate how the government ...

Covid-19 has devastated small businesses nationwide, and New York’s entrepreneurs and landlords have been particularly hard hit. In response, Governor Andrew Cuomo has awarded millions of dollars to ...

More than a decade ago, Californians passed Proposition 209 to abolish all affirmative action. The political proponents proclaimed the evils of quotas and argued that women and minorities were getting ...

Barack Obama's inauguration is "a huge civil rights moment." So said the Rev. Jesse Jackson, who added that Obama "has run the last lap of a 54-year race for civil rights." As Inauguration Day ...

The battle over minority set-asides in state contracting is heating up in Florida, where Governor Jeb Bush is charting a controversial course beyond affirmative action. In November, Bush signed an ...

TexEd.Ch54.0513 authorizes the governing board of an institution of higher education, under the terms the governing board considers appropriate, to charge any student “an amount designated as tuition ...