The Minority Business Enterprise Program is a program of the State of Rhode Island that promotes state policy to support the fullest possible participation of minority and women-owned and controlled businesses in public construction programs and projects financed and directed by the State, as well as purchases of goods by the State. And services. Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce released an update to its Equity Action Plan, in coordination with the Biden-Harris Administration's Whole-of-Government Equity Agenda. This Equity Action Plan is part of the department's efforts to implement the President's Executive Order on “Further Progress.” Racial equity and,