differences in
             reporting requirements between contracts over and under one million
             dollars and companies over and under 100 employees. When
             contracts and companies grow past a certain size, the reporting
             requirements increase exponentially. Even Forest Gump would
             recognize the importance of keeping all contracts under one million
             dollars and all companies under 100 employees. "Smaller is better"
             Some companies might have the potential to be very large and employ hundreds of
             people. However, when companies realize what happens if they do become large
             they decide not to expand their business to avoid implementing affirmative action.
             Like a glass ceiling, companies know their potential but can not reach it.
             Cost of affirmative action deters companies from becoming too large. The
             larger they get the more money is spent the less profit is made. Why not stay
             small and make the same profit? After all, the purpose of owning a business is to
             make money. If the company stays small less work and money is involved with
             enforcing affirmative action. If the company grows the more time and money goes
             towards affirmative action. Starr (1996, p31) found:
             The job itself is straightforward: the fabrication and installation of
             a set of 15-foot-tall metal letters on the roof of a factory building. Doing
             the work is child's play compared with following the contract. The
             distinguishing features of the project are: a) the "progressive"
             character of the customer, a large publisher, and b) my city
             government's corporate welfare policy, which, by supporting the
             project with tax abatements and other subsidies, subjects it to the same
             equal-employment-opportunity requirements as a public project. Thus,
             four levels of affirmative action: corporate, city, state, and federal.
             The main part of the contract, printed in normal-siz...