{"id":71399,"date":"2025-03-14T10:06:39","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T17:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=71399"},"modified":"2025-03-14T10:06:39","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T17:06:39","slug":"how-will-dei-bans-affect-u-s-small-businesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=71399","title":{"rendered":"How Will DEI Bans Affect U.S. Small Businesses?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By<\/span>Selen Ozturk<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Since Trump\u2019s termination of federal diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, small businesses nationwide are expected to take a major hit.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Since Trump\u2019s termination of federal diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, small businesses nationwide are expected to take a major hit.<\/p>\n

The executive orders issued during Trump\u2019s first week of office in late January end all federal DEI and affirmative action programs; equity-related grants and contracts; and prior equal opportunity executive orders.<\/p>\n

The directives come mainly from a trio titled \u201cEnding Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity<\/a>,\u201d \u201cEnding Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing<\/a>\u201d and \u201cDefending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

There are 33.2 million small businesses in the U.S., comprising 99.9% of all businesses.<\/p>\n

Over\u00a040%<\/a>\u00a0of small business owners are women,\u00a024%<\/a>\u00a0are immigrants, and nearly one in five are racial minorities, with Latinos comprising a major portion of that group.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe attack on so-called DEI is really an attack on American entrepreneurship, and this is just the start,\u201d said Dilawar Syed, former deputy administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA), at a Friday March 7 Ethnic Media Services briefing about impacts on small businesses. \u201cThe fastest growing segment of entrepreneurs in our country are people of color \u2026 with an absolutely historic number of veterans as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

The executive orders accompany a January 27 funding freeze of hundreds of billions of dollars for federal programs, and February federal layoffs under the Elon Musk-led Department of Governmental Efficiency including\u00a020%<\/a>\u00a0of SBA staff, approximately 720 employees.<\/p>\n

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