COLUMBIA undefined  This past summer, J's Cleaning Solution in Columbia was certified as a minority- and woman-owned business by the Missouri Office of Equal Opportunity. Owner Jessica Cason began the certification process in 2012, shortly after starting the janitorial services company.

The certification is intended to help her win state contracts. But after two years of dealing with bad information and misleading officials, the certification has not helped her get any state contracts, she said, because J's Cleaning has always been outbid by larger companies.

Twenty years after Missouri set its first goals for contracting with minority- and women-owned businesses, the state's contracting program continues to be affected by "discrimination on a basis of race and gender,"

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