{"id":576287,"date":"2021-06-29T11:20:39","date_gmt":"2021-06-29T15:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=576287"},"modified":"2021-06-29T11:20:41","modified_gmt":"2021-06-29T15:20:41","slug":"federal-court-approves-settlement-in-case-over-black-only-relief-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/federal-court-approves-settlement-in-case-over-black-only-relief-fund\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal Court Approves Settlement in Case Over Black-Only Relief Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffederal-court-approves-settlement-in-case-over-black-only-relief-fund%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=576287&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div readability=\"29.158301158301\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/courts\/\">The Courts<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Oregon fund only dispersed money to black-owned businesses<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"491\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1233370998-736x491-1.jpg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1233370998-736x491.jpg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1233370998-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1233370998-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1233370998-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1233370998-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1233370998-1400x933.jpg 1400w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tThe Oregon State Capitol in Salem, Oregon on June 9, 2021 \/ Getty Images\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/karl-salzmann\/\" title=\"Posts by Karl Salzmann\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Karl Salzmann<\/a> \u2022 June 29, 2021 11:15 am<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"79.288025889968\">\n<p>A federal court last week approved a settlement in a case challenging an Oregon fund that gave COVID-19 relief money only to black-owned businesses.<\/p>\n<p>The state of Oregon set aside $62 million of federal relief money for the &#8220;Oregon Cares Fund for Black Relief and Resiliency.&#8221; The fund would only disperse payments to black Oregonians and black-owned businesses and nonprofits in the state. Great Northern Resources, a family-owned logging business in eastern Oregon, sued the state last October, arguing the fund violated the 14th Amendment and federal anti-discrimination laws. Because the owner of Great Northern is white, the business was ineligible to receive the aid money.<\/p>\n<p>Great Northern and the state reached a settlement in March, under which Oregon will release $5.3 million from the fund to black-owned businesses while allocating a separate $3.5 million for non-black relief applicants. According to the Project for Fair Representation, a legal nonprofit that aided Great Northern, 1,155 additional applicants will receive payments because of the settlement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sadly, the vast bulk of the $62 million had already been distributed before the district court enjoined the program,&#8221; the nonprofit wrote in an email to supporters reviewed by the <i>Washington Free Beacon<\/i>. &#8220;Nevertheless, it is gratifying that some of these funds will be distributed to qualifying businesses without regard to the owner&#8217;s race or ethnicity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The settlement is a setback for state and federal &#8220;equity&#8221; policies, in which the government provides extra resources to particular people and groups in an effort to rectify past discrimination. Equity activists distinguish their cause from &#8220;equality&#8221; policies, under which everyone is treated equally. Equity policies have become popular in recent years, with businesses launching &#8220;corporate equity&#8221; seminars and public school districts mandating &#8220;equity training.&#8221; President Joe Biden has signaled his support for the policies, signing a &#8220;racial equity&#8221; executive order the day he took office.<\/p>\n<p>The settlement also comes as political divisions in Oregon deepen. The agricultural eastern half of the state tends to vote Republican, a stark contrast from the urban, deep-blue west, especially the city of Portland, which saw anti-police riots last year following the death of George Floyd. In recent weeks, eastern Oregonians have voted for their counties to leave the state and join neighboring Idaho.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Courts Oregon fund only dispersed money to black-owned businesses  The Oregon State Capitol in Salem, Oregon on June 9, 2021 \/ Getty Images &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2313636,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1233370998-736x491-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Federal Court Approves Settlement in Case Over Black-Only Relief Fund","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-576287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1233370998-736x491-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Federal Court Approves Settlement in Case Over Black-Only Relief Fund","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=576287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2313636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}