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“Minority businesses generally have a higher rate of hiring more minorities, so it benefits the economy and it benefits those particular communities,” say Leonard Baynes, director of the Ronald H. Brown Center for Civil Rights and Economic Development at St. John's University law school in Queens. “As the city and state become more diverse … that becomes really, really important to develop those sectors of the economy, so that overall everybody’s doing better.”
This story has been updated. 12/4/07
