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Rethinking Minority Business Development Strategies, Robert E. Suggs
Rethinking Minority Business Development Strategies, Robert E. Suggs
Robert E. Suggs
Minority business set-asides were created as a prophylactic measure to redress discrimination against minority owned business firms. Predominantly minority jurisdictions found them especially attractive because they promised to provide minority firms a share of the procurement dollars expended by these jurisdictions. The Croson decision invalidated Richmond’s ordinance and posed substantial barriers to further enactments. This article proposes an alternative to such set-aides. It argues that the proposed alternative, an Equal Opportunity Rating Agency (EORA), provides a superior business development policy tool and does not have the constitutional vulnerabilities of set-asides. An EORA would operate much like a credit rating agency, …
The First Integration Of The University Of Maryland School Of Law, David S. Bogen
The First Integration Of The University Of Maryland School Of Law, David S. Bogen
David S. Bogen
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