George La Noue, Public Policy/Political Science, in the Washington Times

In a new Washington Times article on Maryland’s minority-contracting program, UMBC political science and public policy professor George La Noue argues that definitional and structural program flaws translate to too few businesses “graduating” from the program (i.e., losing eligibility through successful growth to a certain size). La Noue argues that the definition of what qualifies a business as “disadvantaged” for program eligibility is too broad. He suggests, “To argue that someone is economically disadvantaged who has that kind of money is a very tortured definition of that concept; it would mean that 95 percent of all Americans are disadvantaged. The …