{"id":10990,"date":"2025-02-22T08:16:21","date_gmt":"2025-02-22T14:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.totallifeinsight.com\/cbewptli\/?p=10990"},"modified":"2025-02-22T08:16:21","modified_gmt":"2025-02-22T14:16:21","slug":"a-look-at-raleigh-north-carolina-disparity-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totallifeinsight.com\/tli\/blog\/a-look-at-raleigh-north-carolina-disparity-report\/","title":{"rendered":"A Look at Raleigh North Carolina Disparity Report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><br><strong>Raleigh North Carolina Disparity Study Report 2017-2021<\/strong>&#8211; This came up in a general Internet Search on DEI Info. Did not specifically ask about North Carolina so not herein singling out Raleigh North Carolina. Full Report may be found on Raleigh&#8217;s website <a href=\"https:\/\/cityofraleigh0drupal.blob.core.usgovcloudapi.net\/drupal-prod\/COR30\/raleigh-disparity-study.pdf\">here<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/totallifeinsight.com\/cbewptli\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/raleigh-disparity-study 2017-2021.pdf\">here<\/a> if link broken.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The below examines some tables extracted from the above identified report.  Tables begin on Page ES-16 of the report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Abbreviations:<\/strong> PO = Purchase Orders; MBE = Minority Business Enterprise and WBE = Women Business Enterprises; DBE=Disadvantaged Business Enterprises; A&amp;E = Architecture and Design (Buildings, Structures, Bridges, Infrastructure, etc.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>RWA (Ready, Willing and Able)<\/strong> <strong>Availability Considerations: <\/strong>Ready, Willing and Able Availability<strong> <\/strong>Estimate (RWASM Estimate)\u2014the number of DBEs ready and willing to<br>perform a particular scope of work and with the ability<br>to expand (or contract) to do the type of work required.<br>Derived from the U.S. Supreme Court\u2019s statement that:<br>Where there is a significant statistical disparity between<br>the number of qualified minority contractors willing and<br>able to perform a particular service and the number of<br>such contractors actually engaged by the locality or the<br>locality\u2019s prime contractors, an inference of discriminatory<br>exclusion could arise.* &#8211;<strong> From Glossary &#8211;Page XIV of Report<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Marketplace Availability<\/strong>\u2014all firms\u2019 available in the<br>City\u2019 marketplace, as measured by Data Axle and<br>Dodge Construction data. &#8211; <strong>From Glossary &#8211;Page XV of Report<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/totallifeinsight.com\/tli\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/city-of-raleigh-availability-1024x741.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10973\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/totallifeinsight.com\/tli\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/city-of-raleigh-nc-marketplace-availability-1024x715.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10977\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"719\" height=\"455\" src=\"https:\/\/totallifeinsight.com\/tli\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10972\" srcset=\"https:\/\/totallifeinsight.com\/tli\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image.png 719w, https:\/\/totallifeinsight.com\/tli\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-300x190.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 719px) 100vw, 719px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Notice that WBE exceed MBE in all procurement categories. Since MBE includes black women it follows that WBE are mostly White Women given the low overall percentage of MBE.<br><br>Moreover, let us consider the money received by the companies by looking at contract awards.  We can see that the WBEs far exceed MBEs.  Again, WBEs are by observation of the data more White Women than Minorties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now the problem with the money received gap is that it perpetuates and increase the wealth gap between minorities and majorities.  That is what must be fixed.  Now to fix that minorities must increase the RWA availability and  majorities must have the attitude of tapping into the RWA available MBEs at least as much as WBEs but hopefully more than WBEs less Male MBEs be continually under-utilized.  In other words, it would equally evil to tap into more Female MBE while ignoring Male MBEs with the such ignoring seems to be a preference of the majority in a number of society areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/totallifeinsight.com\/tli\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/city-of-raleigh-nc-utilization-by-race-1024x720.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10978\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This post was developed as part of the article entitled <a href=\"https:\/\/totallifeinsight.com\/tli\/exploring-godly-national-morality-socio-economics-eeo-dei-and-immigration-attitudes-speech-and-actions\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"10720\">Exploring Godly National Morality, Socio-Economics, EEO\/DEI, and Immigration Attitudes, Speech, and Actions<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Raleigh North Carolina Disparity Study Report 2017-2021&#8211; This came up in a general Internet Search on DEI Info. Did not specifically ask about North Carolina so not herein singling out Raleigh North Carolina. Full Report may be found on Raleigh&#8217;s website here or here if link broken. The below examines some tables extracted from the<a href=\"https:\/\/totallifeinsight.com\/tli\/blog\/a-look-at-raleigh-north-carolina-disparity-report\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Look at Raleigh North Carolina Disparity Report<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10451,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-socio-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totallifeinsight.com\/tli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totallifeinsight.com\/tli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totallifeinsight.com\/tli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totallifeinsight.com\/tli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totallifeinsight.com\/tli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/totallifeinsight.com\/tli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totallifeinsight.com\/tli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totallifeinsight.com\/tli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totallifeinsight.com\/tli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totallifeinsight.com\/tli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}