Has your business applied for certification as a Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) through your state Department of Transportation (or local agency administering the state’s certification ...

Becoming certified as a minority-owned business allows you to access certain government and private-sector programs that can help support your efforts. In 2012, the U.S. Census Bureau reported that ...

Interim final rule issued this month eliminates sex- and race-based presumptions for firms to qualify as disadvantaged ...

Are you a business owner who wants to participate in the Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) or Airport Concession Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (ACDBE) programs? If so, you need to know how ...

October 3, 2025, will be etched in the memory of many small business owners, as a regulation quietly but hugely shifted beneath our feet. I say "quietly," because for many, this change landed like a ...

J&L Steel & Electrical Services, a woman-owned company in Hudson, Wis., has been certified as a disadvantaged business enterprise (DBE) for electrical products and services in Wisconsin. “This is an ...