Big Government and Affirmative Action : The Scandalous History of the Small Business Administration /

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David Stockman, Ronald Reagan's budget director, proclaimed the Small Business Administration a ""billion-dollar waste -- a rathole, "" and set out to abolish the agency. His scathing critique was but the latest attack on an agency better known as the ""Small Scand...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bean, Jonathan J.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, 2015.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
United States. > Small Business Administration.
United States. > Small Business Administration > History.
Small business > Government policy.
Affirmative action programs.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Affairs & Administration.
Programmes d'action positive > États-Unis > Histoire.
Small business > Government policy > United States.
Affirmative action programs > United States > History.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:David Stockman, Ronald Reagan's budget director, proclaimed the Small Business Administration a ""billion-dollar waste -- a rathole, "" and set out to abolish the agency. His scathing critique was but the latest attack on an agency better known as the ""Small Scandal Administration."" Loans to criminals, government contracts for minority ""fronts, "" the classification of American Motors as a small business, Whitewater, and other scandals -- the Small Business Administration has lurched from one embarrassment to another. Despite the scandals and the policy failures, the SBA thrives and small bus.
Physical Description:1 online resource (240 pages).
ISBN:9780813158648

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