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The policy of creating preferences for businesses owned at least fifty-one percent by members of “minority” groups is now more than three decades old. In 1977, Congressman Parren Mitchell, the head of the Congressional Black Caucus, inserted into the Public Works Employment Act an amendment guarante...
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ftdatacite:10.13016/m2wztv-kplf 2023-08-27T04:09:17+02:00 Pruning the Overgrowth of Government Contracting Preferences ... La Noue, George R. 2011 https://dx.doi.org/10.13016/m2wztv-kplf http://mdsoar.org/handle/11603/20316 en eng The Federalist Society This item is likely protected under Title 17 of the U.S. Copyright Law. Unless on a Creative Commons license, for uses protected by Copyright Law, contact the copyright holder or the author. minority contracts politics Supreme court CreativeWork article 2011 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.13016/m2wztv-kplf 2023-08-07T14:24:23Z The policy of creating preferences for businesses owned at least fifty-one percent by members of “minority” groups is now more than three decades old. In 1977, Congressman Parren Mitchell, the head of the Congressional Black Caucus, inserted into the Public Works Employment Act an amendment guaranteeing that at least ten percent of the funding of all contracts under this program be awarded to minorities (“blacks, Hispanics, Asians, Native Americans, Eskimos and Aleuts”). In Fullilove v. Klutznick, the Supreme Court, in a ruling without a clear standard of review, decided that the expenditure program was constitutional. After the Court’s response to these federal racial preferences, copycat programs spread to a variety of federal agencies and to many state and local governments where the political climate was favorable. ... Article in Journal/Newspaper eskimo* DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) |
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The policy of creating preferences for businesses owned at least fifty-one percent by members of “minority” groups is now more than three decades old. In 1977, Congressman Parren Mitchell, the head of the Congressional Black Caucus, inserted into the Public Works Employment Act an amendment guaranteeing that at least ten percent of the funding of all contracts under this program be awarded to minorities (“blacks, Hispanics, Asians, Native Americans, Eskimos and Aleuts”). In Fullilove v. Klutznick, the Supreme Court, in a ruling without a clear standard of review, decided that the expenditure program was constitutional. After the Court’s response to these federal racial preferences, copycat programs spread to a variety of federal agencies and to many state and local governments where the political climate was favorable. ... |
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