By Jeffrey McKinney, blackenterprise.com
When it comes to hiring black businesses, the Democratic National Committee has much more to do.
Just 17.6% of the $17.5 million of the DNC’s contract spending for consulting work, including an anemic 6.4% for black businesses, was issued to minority-owned businesses the past year, a BuzzFeed News Analysis reveals. The activity for Latino-owned businesses was lower, coming in at 4.3%.
The analysis came a year after DNC Chairman Tom Perez and other party leaders pledged that diversity hiring would be a top concern moving ahead for the governing body of the Democratic Party.
Read more at http://www.blackenterprise.com/analysis-dnc-hiring-of-black-and-minority-firms-at-low-levels-for-consulting-services/.
