Tags Transportation Equity Network (TEN)
Tag: Transportation Equity Network (TEN)
Black businesses shorted on stimulus contracts
Since President Barack Obama signed his stimulus package into law in February, the U.S. Department of Transportation has handed out more than $150 million in contracts to companies for street, highway and bridge construction. New statistics released by the Transportation Equity Network (TEN) show that from that pot of money not a single dollar had been allocated to any African-American owned business.