U.S. Small Business Administration Chief Joins Durham Leaders to Discuss the Economy

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Welcome to the weekend, readers.

With less than a week before the election, the Biden-Harris administration is still deploying surrogates to make its case to voters, including on its record on the economy.

Isabel Casillas Guzman, head of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) and a member of President Biden’s cabinet, traveled to Durham on Tuesday to highlight small business growth in North Carolina under the Biden-Harris administration and meet with local business leaders to offer resources available to entrepreneurs through the SBA.

The afternoon culminated in a roundtable discussion with Guzman, unofficial President Biden fan club CEO and Durham mayor Leonardo Williams, and Operation HOPE founder and CEO John Hope Bryant hosted at the North Carolina Central University School of Business.

Guzman offered a hopeful outlook on the state of the small business economy in North Carolina and nationwide, especially for minority entrepreneurs, but Bryant was more skeptical, claiming that financial literacy is one of the great handicaps for Black and Latino citizens to get ahead.

Williams, a small business owner in his own right, was eager to share how these relationships would lead to economic prosperity for Durham residents.

Read more about the SBA’s visit to Durham here. And have a good weekend. 

—Justin

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