Durham and Durham County have long-standing policies to encourage contracting with minority- and women-owned businesses, but those policies aren’t working very well. Such companies are significantly underutilized as prime contractors…Click to Continue »
Study Finds Disparities In Durham Contracting
jwise@newsobserver.com (Jim Wise), The News & Observer
Thu, 02/19/2015 - 3:00pm
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