It has been whispered at construction sites across New York for decades. Want access to lucrative government contracts? Put your business in your wife’s name. But lately, New York State has been ...

NEW YORK — Gov. Kathy Hochul recently celebrated the elimination of New York’s yearslong certification backlog for minority- and women-owned business enterprises following a transformative $11 million ...

Last week, Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed legislation expanding and extending the state’s Minority and Women Owned Business Enterprises program. Some legislators, however, have concerns that the program isn ...

Attempting to crack down on a decades-old scam in which front companies perform subcontracts under minority/women-owned business enterprise, or M/WBE, contracting programs, the city of Chicago says ...

Stefanie Wiley’s company has doubled in size since she became majority owner seven years ago. But she was denied recertification by the state’s MWBE program — an experience that’s become more common ...

COLUMBIA - A new study is being conducted to determine if Missouri equitably employs minority and women-owned businesses. The Small Business Impact Study investigates the state's Minority and ...