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News Texas removes women and minorities from Historically Underutilized Business program for state contracts

News Texas removes women and minorities from Historically Underutilized Business program for state contracts

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Dec 2 2025, 7:06 PM
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https://www.texastribune.org/2025/12/02/texas-historically-underutilized-business-program-hub-women-minorities/

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Quote:The Historically Underutilized Business program will now focus on businesses owned by disabled veterans and be renamed the Veteran Heroes United in Business program, or VetHUB. Only veterans with a 20% percent or higher service-connected disability will be eligible, according to a news release from the Comptroller’s office.

Businesses that have a HUB certification connected to their owners’ race, ethnicity or sex will have their certification revoked under the new rules, according to the office.
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Dec 2 2025, 7:06 PM #1

https://www.texastribune.org/2025/12/02/texas-historically-underutilized-business-program-hub-women-minorities/

https://archive.ph/Ml04S

Quote:The Historically Underutilized Business program will now focus on businesses owned by disabled veterans and be renamed the Veteran Heroes United in Business program, or VetHUB. Only veterans with a 20% percent or higher service-connected disability will be eligible, according to a news release from the Comptroller’s office.

Businesses that have a HUB certification connected to their owners’ race, ethnicity or sex will have their certification revoked under the new rules, according to the office.

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Quote:The program will now only be eligible for service-disabled veterans. It will be called Veteran Heroes United in Business.

So... I... ugh. Just disgusting. Literally just more warmongering propaganda from the fragile toxic masculinity war-obsessed administration. And promotion of businesses run by men, basically. 89% of veterans are male (in 2023). "Service-disabled" probably increases the sex disparity even more, since women are often not selected in roles that would leave them disabled, I assume (harder to find data for this exact metric).
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Quote:The program will now only be eligible for service-disabled veterans. It will be called Veteran Heroes United in Business.

So... I... ugh. Just disgusting. Literally just more warmongering propaganda from the fragile toxic masculinity war-obsessed administration. And promotion of businesses run by men, basically. 89% of veterans are male (in 2023). "Service-disabled" probably increases the sex disparity even more, since women are often not selected in roles that would leave them disabled, I assume (harder to find data for this exact metric).

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