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| September 2, 2021 | What’s the point of Amtrak? | The $1 trillion infrastructure bill, if made into law as in its current form, will give $66 billion in new funding for Amtrak, which has a wish list of more than 50 new routes it wants to construct ...Read more |
| August 26, 2021 | EPA Creates Diversity Task Force, Will Spend More With DBEs | Earlier this month, an internal EPA email was obtained by E&E news. In it, Deputy Administrator Janet McCabe told employees of the agency that a “diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility (D ...Read more |
| August 23, 2021 | Massachusetts Wind Farm’s Union Priority at Odds With Workforce Diversity | On May 11, the Biden Administration’s Secretary of Interior, Deb Haaland, and the Secretary of Commerce, Gina Raimondo, announced the approval of the construction of the Vineyard Wind project. Th ...Read more |
| August 17, 2021 | SBA is Working With Congress to Codify Biden’s Raised DBE Goals | In an exclusive interview with Federa ...Read more |
| August 16, 2021 | US Blew $30b on Afghanistan Construction Programs | Here at Contractor News, we like to talk a lot about what we call the three C’s: contracting, construction, and corruption. Though we typically cover domestic issues, Afghanistan is a story that ...Read more |
| August 11, 2021 | OMB Report IDs Major Faults in Equity in Federal Programs | OMB, under the leadership of Acting Director Shalanda Young, consulted with a number of US and international experts of matters of equity including assessment and improvement, data science and “o ...Read more |
| August 4, 2021 | Material Costs Still Sky-High as Infrastructure Bill Approaches Passing | As we recently reported, the massive infrastructure bill championed by the Biden adm ...Read more |
| July 29, 2021 | Infrastructure Bill Passes Major Hurdle With Bipartisan Support | The US Senate voted on Wednesday to start debating the roughly $1 trillion infrastructure package, a longtime and key component of the Biden Administration’s agenda. The current iteration o ...Read more |
| July 28, 2021 | BREAKING: US Government Breaks Records With $145.7B Awarded to Small Businesses | The $145.7 billion figures surpasses the previous fiscal year’s total by a whopping $13 billion. It is however worth noting that these figures account for Fiscal Year 2020, before President Joe B ...Read more |
| July 13, 2021 | Biden Admin. Advised on Equity by Top Contracting Association | The Professional Service Council (PSC) is a contracting association that represents more than 400 companies that do business with the federal government. The group submitted a response last week to ...Read more |