There was a provision in the law [obama stimulus package] that allowed government infrastructure "shovel ready jobs" to be distributed to people (like fixing roads for instance) but priority was given to those [companies] who were [owned by]minorities or [people with] female genitalia. strange but true. But there weren't many companies, so nothing much happened.
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There was a provision in the law [obama stimulus package] that allowed government infrastructure "shovel ready jobs" to be distributed to people (like fixing roads for instance) but priority was given to those [companies] who were [owned by]minorities or [people with] female genitalia. strange but true. But there weren't many companies, so nothing much happened.
Former US President Obama admitted it...
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/obama-no-such-thing-as-shovel-ready-projects/
the origin of the expression "shovel ready jobs"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/07/AR2009010703662.html
edit: I liked your politeness. e2, cleared up the definitions a bit. [the clear ups are in brackets]
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