The DBE program no longer considers gender or race as evidence of disadvantage.

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CHICAGO – Five months after a federal court ruled in favor of the Trump administration’s overhaul of a U.S. Department of Transportation program, minority-owned businesses say they are being shut out ...

For decades, the federal Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) program offered a vital foot in the door for minority- and women-owned businesses in the construction industry. But recently, that door ...

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. — Attorney General Gentner Drummond is asking that Governor Kevin Stitt and Oklahoma Department of Transportation (ODOT) Director Tim Gatz to seek a waiver in awarding contracts ...

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 ...

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WASHINGTON — Kenneth Bush, who considers himself a “civic-minded entrepreneur,” is proud that his construction company has grown to support 22 employees and their families. As one of 12 children of ...