Texas scraps women and minority-owned business support in sweeping contracting shift
Brenda Sangi Arruda / GettyBrenda Sangi Arruda / Getty A decades-old program designed to level the playing field is now reserved exclusively for service-disabled veterans under a new emergency rule. Texas has abruptly rewritten the rules of its state contracting system, stripping women and minority-owned businesses of a long-standing support program and reshaping it entirely…
