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The U.S. Department of Transportation has announced a potential end to its Disadvantaged Business Enterprise program, which considers disadvantaged businesses when awarding billions for federal highway and transit projects. The…
A new Interim Final Rule (IFR) issued by the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) fundamentally changes the operation of the Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) and Airport Concessions Disadvantaged Business Enterprise…
Federal funding for Chicago Transit Authority improvements is the latest target in the Trump administration’s pressure campaign on Democrats to reopen the government — the second large-scale infrastructure project the…
For months as the new presidential and Gov. Mike Braun administrations announced waves of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion purges, there was a major program long embedded into state and federal…
This October, a coalition of Women First Trustees and DBEs of America members have their sights set on our nation’s capital with one goal in mind: securing congressional reauthorization of…
This July, a coalition of Women First Trustees and DBEs of America members descended on Washington, D.C., with a unified mission: securing congressional reauthorization of the Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE)…
President Donald Trump has never masked his hostility toward practices that benefit underrepresented groups in academia, business, and public service. Indeed, his first acts in office included discarding Civil Rights-era…
Attorneys for the U.S. Dept. of Transportation called the agency’s disadvantaged business enterprise program “unconstitutional” and asked a judge to block it from setting DBE contract goals as part of…
The Transportation Department initiative, which serves an estimated 49,000 contractors, was a key lifeline for many minority- and women-owned businesses.