And we do need to have offsets if we're going to keep our small businesses thriving. Look, one of the things that I feel strongly about, and I worked on this as comptroller, was the notion that We have women in minority owned businesses that get certified as MWBEs, but they get no contracts, no work. And the reason we want them to have an opportunity to compete fairly for city contracts. Is because those small businesses are very often not in central. (33:20–33:30)
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