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Happy Holidays from the Small Business Owners Council!
We need your American Rescue Plan and Bipartisan Infrastructure Law success stories. The Biden Administration has been focused on helping small business. We would like to hear your stories about how the American Rescue Plan (ARP) or Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) helped you or your small business. Do you or someone you know own a small business that received help thanks to the ARP? Will improvements to broadband, transportation and infrastructure help your business? Let us know by emailing the story and contact information to salcedoe@dnc.org. Thank you.
 
President Biden and Democrats Help Small Businesses 
American Rescue Plan
  • $15 billion in grants to help businesses with less than 50 employees
  • $28 billion for grants to support small and independent bars and restaurants.
  • $1.25 billion in funding to support live venue operators, theatrical producers, live performing arts organization operators, museum operators and motion picture theatre operators
  • $10 billion for state, local, and tribal small business financing programs.
  • $10.4 billion for agricultural and food supply sectors, $5 billion of which was for socially disadvantaged farmers of color. 
  • $4 billion for the purchase and distribution of food, PPE equipment for farmers and frontline workers in the food industry and financial support for farmers, food processing companies and farmers markets.
Bipartisan Infrastructure Law
  • $65 billion for rural and urban broadband to get affordable broadband into these critically under-served areas.
  • $73 billion for power grid infrastructure to reduce the likelihood of what happened in Texas from happening elsewhere.
  • $56 billion for public transit, including $7.5 billion for electric buses
  • $55 billion for water infrastructure with $5 billion for Western water storage as droughts continue to hit the Western states and Southern and Midwestern states are hit with floods.
  • $109 billion for roads and bridges, $25 billion for airports and $16 billion for waterways and ports.
  • $21 billion in environmental remediation.
Democrats Speak Out on Small Business Saturday
November 28 was Small Business Saturday. DNC Chairman Jamie Harrison and DNC Small Business Owners Council Chair Andrew Lachman encouraged Democrats to support small business. 

“Small businesses are the foundation of the American economy and are the heart of communities across the country. The pandemic has impacted small businesses deeply as a result, but this year we can celebrate the enormous progress we have made as a record number of small businesses are starting up and as our economy makes a historic recovery thanks to the leadership of President Biden.

“We hope everyone will join us in putting our values into action this weekend and show their support for small business by doing their holiday shopping at small businesses in their communities.”
 
Biden Administration Announces Plan to Expand Minority Small Business Contracting by 50% 
Following up on executive orders to focus on racial and gender equity for small business, the Biden Administration announced plans to expand government contracting for women and minority owned small business so that governmentwide spending results in 11 percent of contracting dollars being awarded to small disadvantaged businesses, up from the current statutory goal of 5 percent in FY2023. This is the first step towards meeting the President’s goal of ensuring that 15% of federal contracts go to SDBs by 2025, Translating into $100 billion in opportunities for small disadvantage businesses over five years.  The Biden-Harris Administration also announced major changes to the federal government’s use of “category management” to boost contracting opportunities for underserved small businesses. The previous administration reduced small business contracting in the Federal government. Less than 10 percent of federal agencies’ total eligible contracting dollars typically go to small disadvantaged businesses (SDB), a category under federal law for which Black-owned, Latino-owned, and other minority-owned businesses are presumed to qualify. Moreover, while women own roughly 20 percent of all small businesses economy-wide, less than 5 percent of federal contracting dollars go to women-owned small businesses.
Unemployment Applications Hit Lowest Level Since 1969
SBOC Vice Chair Scott Taylor was invited by the White House to meet with First Lady Dr. Jill Biden and Ms. Isabella Casillas Guzman, SBA Administrator at their visit to Kansas City, Kansas.

SBOC Vice Chair Rhett Buttle was at the White House for the signing of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Act.

SBOC Chair Andrew Lachman, SBOC Secretary Clay Middelton and Vice Chair Atticus Francken met with DNC Treasurer Virginia McGregor regarding small business fundraising.

All the Biz You Need to Know from Your DNC Small Business Owners Council Leadership Team

 

Andrew Lachman ・ Christine Chin Ryan  
Rhett Buttle ・ Atticus Francken 
Scott Taylor  ・ Clay Middleton

Region Directors
Mark Gordon, Brigette Hunley, Mark Cannady

 

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