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The Straight Story Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-27-09 06:28 PM
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Affirmative Action: Minority contracts no longer assured (Nebraska's ban on affirmative action)
Affirmative Action: Minority contracts no longer assured

Omaha city leaders hope - but can't guarantee - that minority-owned companies will get contracts to help build the new downtown ballpark this year.

That's a marked change from a decade ago, when the Omaha City Council mandated that at least $5.7 million in contracts go to women and minorities during the construction of the Qwest Center Omaha. The difference: Nebraska's new ban on affirmative action.

The ban, upheld in court last week, has halted the City of Omaha's protected business enterprise program, which for years shuttled a small part of giant public works contracts to minority- and female-owned businesses.

It also has sent the city and the University of Nebraska scrambling as they end programs that clearly violate the law, tweak scholarship requirements and strip from hiring policies newly banned language that mentions race, ethnicity or gender.

University and city leaders describe the process as a delicate attempt to both follow the new law and ensure that the ban doesn't disproportionately hurt minorities and women.

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