{"id":579881,"date":"2010-05-26T18:40:58","date_gmt":"2010-05-26T22:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/itecsinsider.com\/?p=15539"},"modified":"2010-05-26T18:40:58","modified_gmt":"2010-05-26T22:40:58","slug":"president-obama-calls-on-congress-to-pass-a-small-business-jobs-package","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/579881","title":{"rendered":"President Obama Calls On Congress To Pass A Small Business Jobs Package"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 6pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5114\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px;\" title=\"jobs\" src=\"http:\/\/itecsinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/jobs.jpg\" alt=\"jobs\" width=\"89\" height=\"68\" \/>(The White House, May 25, 2010) \u2013 Today, at an event honoring Small Business Owners of the Year from across the country, the President will urge Congress to pass a Small Business Jobs Package, including a proposal he put forth in early February to create a new Small Business Lending Fund to provide small businesses with the tools to access capital so they can grow and hire. \u00a0\u00a0A fact sheet on the Small Business Jobs Package can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/rss_viewer\/small_business_jobs_package_5-25-10.pdf\" >HERE<\/a>. \u00a0Earlier this month, the President sent legislation on the Small Business Lending Fund to Congress earlier this month, along with a new state small business credit initiative that will help expand lending for small businesses and manufacturers at a time when budget shortfalls are forcing states to cut back on lending programs.\u00a0 Today, the President will urge the House and Senate to move quickly on these and other proposals that encourage investment in our nation\u2019s small businesses, which are crucial to our efforts to create new jobs across the country.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the-press-office\/president-obama-calls-congress-pass-a-small-business-jobs-package\" >Click here to read more\u2026<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(The White House, May 25, 2010) \u2013 Today, at an event honoring Small Business Owners of the Year from across the country, the President will urge Congress to pass a Small Business Jobs Package, including a proposal he put forth in early February to create a new Small Business Lending Fund to provide small businesses [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-579881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}