Dean Plan For Small Business Jobs

Plan Will Create 100,000 New Small Business Jobs In Three Years

Speaking at a town hall meeting in Plaistow, New Hampshire, Howard Dean announced his plan to stimulate small business growth. The centerpiece of the plan is the creation of a Small Business Capital Corporation (SBCC) that will invest $1 billion in loans and create 100,000 new small business jobs in the first three years.

“President Bush is not pro-business,” Governor Dean said. “His reckless economic policies only benefit select large corporations and an elite clique of CEOs like Ken Lay of Enron. Small business is America’s most powerful engine of economic growth. Small business provides seventy-five percent of all net new jobs in the United States, and those jobs are less likely to move overseas. More importantly, small business owners epitomize the hard work, innovation, and hope of the American dream.”