Rep. Johnson Seeks Answers to Lack of Federal Advertising With Minority Media
March 03, 2022
March 03, 2022
WASHINGTON, March 3 -- Rep. Henry C. 'Hank' Johnson Jr., D-Georgia, issued the following news release:
Pointing out that a recent Government Accountability Office (GAO) study in 2016 found over a five-year period, the federal government spent more than $5 billion on advertising but Black-owned businesses received only $51 million, or 1.02 percent of those funds, Congressman Hank Johnson (GA-04) sent a letter to the Biden Administration today seeking answers to this decades . . .
Pointing out that a recent Government Accountability Office (GAO) study in 2016 found over a five-year period, the federal government spent more than $5 billion on advertising but Black-owned businesses received only $51 million, or 1.02 percent of those funds, Congressman Hank Johnson (GA-04) sent a letter to the Biden Administration today seeking answers to this decades . . .