Business Owners Give Feds ‘A Couple Earfuls'
Wednesday, May 4th, 2011
Federal officials traveled to Atlanta this week to ask more than 100 small business owners how Washington could help them. The emphatic answer: Help us get access to capital and cut red tape.
"We got a couple earfuls," said Marie Johns, deputy administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration.
The Startup America: Reducing Barriers Roundtable is part of the Obama administration's effort to boostsmall business and entrepreneurship. The Atlanta event was the sixth of eight being held across the country. The administration will use the input from businesses to produce a report.
