{"id":11893,"date":"2021-01-22T21:46:49","date_gmt":"2021-01-22T21:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=153711"},"modified":"2021-01-22T21:46:49","modified_gmt":"2021-01-22T21:46:49","slug":"white-house-commitment-to-smallest-and-minority-owned-businesses-key-to-solving-economic-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/22\/white-house-commitment-to-smallest-and-minority-owned-businesses-key-to-solving-economic-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"White House Commitment to Smallest and Minority-owned Businesses Key to Solving Economic Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<p>WASHINGTON &#8211; On today\u2019s White House press conference on small business relief, <strong>Main Street Alliance Government Affairs Director<\/strong> Didier Trinh&nbsp;had this to say:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSmall businesses across the country are glad to see a recommitment to prioritizing their needs as we continue through an ongoing pandemic and economic crisis.<\/p>\n<p>More outreach and a focus on the accessibility and equitable distribution of COVID relief for minority-owned businesses is a welcome priority after a year of free-for-all, first-come first-served chaos. Small business owners without accountants and back office supports need the hands on support and technical assistance that navigators can provide.<\/p>\n<p>The investment in supporting small businesses through the relief programs must also be matched with a long-term commitment to expanding equitable access to capital and increased technical assistance to support new and growing small businesses after the crisis. The COVID crisis has revealed and exacerbated pre-existing barriers to capital for such firms, including small business redlining, usury credit rates and practices, and lack of other supports and technical assistance needed to launch and grow a successful business. Main Street Alliance has outlined <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mainstreetalliance.org\/first_100_days?e=1eb9042a1722f8219b27a4c1dcb0dea9&amp;utm_source=mainstreetalliance&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=wh_presser_press&amp;n=4\">key small business priorities<\/a> for this immediate crisis, and beyond, and looks forward to working with the administration to implement these priorities.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2021\/01\/22\/white-house-commitment-to-smallest-and-minority-owned-businesses-key-to-solving-economic-crisis\/\">Radio Free<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2013 On today\u2019s White House press conference on small business relief, Main Street Alliance Government Affairs Director Didier Trinh\u00a0had this to say: \u201cSmall businesses across the country\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11893"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11894,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11893\/revisions\/11894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}