Leaders in the minority business community say the data only proves minority business owners are being ignored and left out.
A new study commissioned by Santa Clara County shows that only a small portion of government contracts are awarded to minority business owners.Leaders in the minority business community say the data only proves what they’ve been saying for years: minority business owners are being ignored and left out and that has to change.
Santa Clara County’s recently released Vendor Disparity Study shows the county spent more than $2.4 billion on contracts between July 2016 and June 2022. Fifteen percent of those funds went to minority-owned businesses including non-minority women, with less than 1% going to African American, Hispanic, and Native American business owners."There are many Latinos that are very much part of the workforce, but they’re not part of the ownership.
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