We cannot alter the employment environment without making sure that we are giving all the resources to small businesses.
There is no question about it. It is all about jobs, jobs, jobs. It is not materializing, and it is severe.
A day should not go by that we should not be figuring this out.
So what could happen in terms of the 7(a) and the 504 loan programs to improve the amount, or the percentage, going to minority-owned busine...
Yes. I think that would be helpful to sort of guide us in how things are working in that respect.
I would appreciate those numbers for the Committee, if you have the numbers of jobs created.
Thank you, Chair Landrieu for your continued leadership in championing our nation's small businesses, especially during these precarious eco...
the depressed economy, as Senator Snowe, has resulted in the steepest lending since 1942.
It does work. These are unusual times.
I congratulate you and the Administrator for making that happen.
Certainly, so many in our underserved communities, are facing the tremendous impediment of accessing capital, which is obviously the economi...