Minority Business Development Centers Provides local and regional programs to assist minority-owned enterprises with start-up advice, business planing and financial assistance.

At a time when many small businesses are facing hardship in New York City, banks are allocating loans in a way that greatly favors large, well-established companies over small, young and minority-owned enterprises, according to a new report.

As such, I welcome the opportunity to speak before you here today, and to discuss our shared vision, by showing you the ways in which we are committed to seeing minority-owned enterprises succeed.

The new impetus is forcing professional franchises - by threat of pickets, boycotts and lawsuits - to deal with minority-owned enterprises.

The FCC will partner with businesses, including women-owned and minority-owned enterprises, as well as investors and entrepreneurs from all backgrounds to support a flourishing digital economy, and ensure that all Americans can enjoy the benefits of broadband opportunity.

Increased Bidding Competition The lackluster economy in recent years has left many small businesses fighting to stay afloat, but for minority-owned enterprises like Mr. James's, the struggle has been that much harder, county and state officials said.

Schiavone Construction was obligated to subcontract part of the work to a minority-owned enterprise.

Within this zone, we should provide immediate incentives for job-creating investment, tax relief for small businesses, incentives to companies that create jobs, and loans and loan guarantees for small businesses, including minority-owned enterprises, to get them up and running again.

In one of the civil rights cases, the Court will decide whether the Constitution permits state and local governments to set aside portions of public works contracts to be awarded to minority-owned enterprises.

The Court will review a decision by a Federal appeals court that invalidated a Richmond, Va., ordinance requiring all city contractors to subcontract 30 percent of the work to minority-owned enterprises.