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hrmjustin

(71,265 posts) Thu Mar 20, 2014, 05:27 PM Mar 2014

Veterans to get 6% of NY business contracts

Joseph Spector

State leaders today to enact a law that would award six percent of state contracts to businesses owned by disabled veterans.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s office said the initiative is more robust than the federal program, which pledges three percent of contracts to businesses of veterans disabled during their service.

The state will create a Division of Service-Disabled Veterans’ Business Development within the Office of General Services to facilitate the program.

Cuomo made the announcement during a veterans’ summit Thursday near the Capitol. It was among the initiatives Cuomo announced to help veterans, including expanded job-training opportunities and free lifetime passes to state parks.

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