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- <text id=90TT2519>
- <title>
- Sep. 24, 1990: Business Notes:Enterprise
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Sep. 24, 1990 Under The Gun
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 71
- Business Notes
- ENTERPRISE
- The Color Of Money
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> The 1980s were difficult years for the civil rights
- movement, but when it came to entrepreneurship, black Americans
- made substantial strides. The government said last week that
- the number of black-owned businesses rose from 308,000 in 1982
- to 424,000 in 1987, an increase of 38%. At the same time, the
- overall number of U.S. firms grew just 14%.
- </p>
- <p> The survey also showed that the average black enterprise had
- annual revenues of $47,000 during the period, vs. an average
- of $146,000 for all small and medium-size U.S. companies. Yet
- government efforts to steer contracts to black firms are under
- attack from conservatives, who call this a form of
- discrimination. Says Henry Henderson, an electronics
- entrepreneur in New Jersey: "It is now more difficult to set
- aside projects strictly for minority companies."
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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