Black Businesses Among Enterprises That Could Reap Big Gains From Biden's Infrastructure Law

Source: BLACK ENTERPRISE

Small businesses, including Black entrepreneurs, can gain potentially lucrative opportunities from President Biden’s $1.2 trillion infrastructure package. That’s mainly because the plan that became law last November offers many projects that small businesses could tap into. Consider that the plan consists of $550 billion of new federal investments for the nation’s infrastructure over five years. That will include everything from fixing America’s crumbling roads and bridges to touching its water, broadband, and energy systems.

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Michigan lawsuit challenges Biden vaccine mandate for federal contract employees

Source: MLIVE

A new federal lawsuit filed in Michigan Tuesday joins others across the nation challenging the constitutionality of the President Joe Biden administration’s vaccine mandate, tentatively scheduled to begin taking effect Jan. 10.

The lawsuit, filed by 11 federal contract employees, including six from Michigan, accuses the Biden administration mandate of forcing “virtually everyone who works for a federal contractor or subcontractor — even if they do not work in connection with a federal contract — to receive an emergency-use-only vaccine or else lose their jobs.”

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Lack Of Diversity In Government Contracts: A Way Forward

Source:FORBES

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, non-white populations account for nearly 40% of the adult population in 2020, and are growing faster than the country’s non-Hispanic white population. The census predicts that the U.S. will become a “minority white” population by 2045. Much like our communities, the small business landscape is becoming increasingly diverse. Despite this phenomenon, few government contracts are awarded to minority and women-owned business enterprises (M/WBEs).

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