Leveling the Playing Field for Minority and Women-Owned Businesses

Marisol Alcántara

Originally published in Gotham Gazette

Senator Marisol Alcántara understands the historic barriers to city and state contracts that businesses owned by minorities and women have faced. In order to help these communities close this gap and build the capacity to compete for these contracts in the future, the State should raise the amount limit of city contracts available to MWBE's.