Tyrone Hart, executive director of the National Association of Minority Contractors, said it is "difficult" to answer whether Black construction businesses are getting their fair share of the stimulus because "some regions of the country are doing better than others." He describes the state of Pennsylvania as fighting "tooth and nail" for their share while the state of Texas has been doing fairly well.

According to John Macklin, president of the Philadelphia chapter of the National Association of Minority Contractors, and regional vice president for the northeast region of the association that extends from Maine to Virginia, states in his region are being affected by project labor agreements that permit projects to be awarded exclusively to union contractors, which only represent 15 percent of the workforce, he said.

"That means the union discriminates against more than eight out of 10 construction workers who would otherwise be able to work on a construction project if not for a union-only project labor agreement," said Macklin. "Those contracts that are subject to project labor agreements typically discourage minority contractors and non-union contractors from bidding..."

Macklin also said that the state of California is hurting as well.

An exception on the east coast is Maryland which has a strong minority contracting community so legislators are up to par with assisting Black and female contractors with securing work, said Macklin.

Texas is progressing based on its right-to-work status, which allows a contractor to work whether they are union or non-union.