Erin LaCombe found a specialized niche for her firm, but it's far from a safe harbor. Like many small business owners, she gained a competitive advantage by earning an official stamp of approval ...

ST. LOUIS – The city of St. Louis suspended its certification program for small businesses that look to compete for government contracts. Community leaders are calling it a major setback for minority- ...

A proposed rewrite of the policy, which commissioners will vote on next month, cuts a nonbinding goal that 20% of county ...

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The former HUB program will now only serve enterprises operated by military veterans with service-connected disabilities, ...

For decades, minority-owned businesses in Connecticut have struggled to win contracts to do work for the state — despite a nearly 50-year-old program requiring that a certain percentage of state ...

The program will now only be available for service-disabled veterans. It will be called Veteran Heroes United in Business.

A grand jury sitting in Manhattan recently recommended significantly more aggressive criminal charging options to further the public policy goals of promoting small business and increasing ...

The Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts overhauled a program designed to provide more exposure to historically underutilized ...

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