04/27/2015
https://www.congress.gov...
"85 percent of our country's persistent poverty counties are in rural America. Poverty is not just an urban issue."
"My great concern is that we will end up, even in states like North Dakota, being a place where people will only find opportunity in cities over 50,000, 60,000 people."
"I will tell you, in visiting, people feel like these programs are disjointed, that all of a sudden, they will hear something from SBA that they had not."
"For me, a lot of this lies in maximizing the availability of federal resources, maximizing the knowledge of federal resources and where we come talk to Penny Pritzker, talk to anyone that I can, Maria..."