DEI related executive order and its impact on MBE driven business

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January 22, 2025

by a searcher from Harvard University - Harvard Business School in Austin, TX, USA

How does the recent EO on DEI impact MBE (Minority Based Enterprises) program? Do you see them getting folded as well?

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from University of Pennsylvania in Bellevue, WA, USA
Here's a good article covering this topic. The article suggests that MBE firms with government contracts at the federal level are most likely to be negatively impacted in the near term, but impacts to state-level contracts may be on the horizon. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/11/11/minority-contractors-federal-preferences/ If that link doesn't work for you, I can send you the PDF.
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from Harvard University in Lynbrook, NY 11563, USA
The MWE programs are largely state programs so not directly affected by an executive order, but it does show the winds are blowing differently and people are fed up with inappropriate racial and identity based preferences that perpetrate the same sins they are ostensibly designed to cure…
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