AACCNJ Hosts a Town Hall Meeting “The Fierce Urgency of Now”
The African American Chamber of Commerce of New Jersey (AACCNJ) will host a town hall meeting topic: “The Fierce Urgency of Now”- A Presentation on the State’s newly released Disparity Study, conducted by Mason Tillman Associates, LTD.
The Town Hall Meeting will be held at The Crowne Plaza Princeton, NJ on February 6th from 3-5 p.m., and is a free event. The Presentation will be led by Dr. Denise Anderson, Founder & CEO, Denise Anderson & Associates (DA&A) LLC, moderated by John E. Harmon, Sr., IOM, Founder, President & CEO, AACCNJ, and will include a Q&A session with the audience.
“The Study, as expected, revealed that African American businesses received little of the $ 18.5 billion the Murphy administration spent on contracts for construction, professional services and goods and services from 2015 to 2020”, said John E. Harmon, Sr. “While expecting the worst, little did we know that the Study would document African Americans received less than one (1) percent of the $18.5 billion dollars the State awarded to contractors. African American businesses received a pittance despite the fact that we represent, 14 percent of the population, and over 10 percent of the businesses in
New Jersey willing and able to contract with the State.”
The Study also documented that all ethnic groups received fewer contracts than expected given the number of New Jersey businesses owned by people of color. More than 25 percent of the businesses the Study identified as willing and able to contract with the State were owned by African Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Native Americans. “Now that the State’s commissioned study has documented the institutional discrimination our members have long experienced, we must demand that the Murphy Administration immediately establish a race and gender-based program with minority and woman-owned business utilization goals to end the discriminatory practices in its award of contracts”, said Harmon.
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