business and small communities. i would say i'm a little hesitant when we talk about growing organizations and the government that typically is not very efficient or inefficient use of dollars, so i do think they have a role, but i agree with the representative williams. the taxes are a huge problem to grow government and in order to pay for that tax increases there is a problem. >> thank you. i appreciate that. in the context of this hearing this is in office created in the first administration. i think that there is a feeling back then and there is today and many of the businesses are not even aware how the programs or arethe lending opportunities ore services might be available yet they are paying tax dollars into these programs. shouldn't we make sure some of that benefit is returned to the community? >> a number of us brought this to the attention of the administration and we were very pleased and how responsive they were ignoring the mandate from congress and to put in an acting director they benefited directl

business closure small. the health of the small business economy because that is hard to get it. yeah. there's actually there's a project that sponsored by harvard in conjunction with the hamilton project. that's called open something. i don't remember but if you put if you type in to your search engine, you know, small business closures, you'll get to this project pretty quickly by harvard that shows that the only thing i will tell you about the data and this is you know as a small business expert one of the things that kind of drives me crazy people don't really understand what constitutes small business. so i'm somewhat skeptical that their numbers are high like they're showing nationally that we have some more between 35 and 40% of all small businesses closed now. i told you at the top of the hour that you know, we have before covid 30 quite human small businesses. i don't think 10 million of them which will give them have clothes. i think that's either employ your own businesses, which would make it aro

i wrote a book ten years ago about the risks to small business and how hard it is to run a small business and it isn't for the faint of heart. but never did i think that the government was going to be the number one risk of small business and we would be in a situation where we would just shut them down yet 50 months later here we are. >> one of the important contributions of your book and i would love to talk about that as well but the pandemic people talk about how we need to support a small businesses and we spend money on the idea that we need to support small businesses, yet in all of the policies we are kind of geared towards i guess before we get into that, one of the things to talk about in the book and the important part is you saw on the timeline the pandemic is just as much of a government failure in so many ways as it was kind of pandemics and kind of all of the biology that goes along with that and i would like to dive into that. before we have the pandemic here, what could the government have done to prevent that or -- >> this is fascinating to me. as i was doing the researc

business but what the government gave small business was a program that was complex in so many smalless owners who got the first tranche of money and then they were afraid because it took months if they could get their loans forgiven because it was a government program. to say you can't run your business. instead of compensating you which was the s right thing to do if you take their property we will compensate you we will give you a loan to make it forgive of all you can understand how to forgive those loans but then they couldn't understand it and similar to the ppp. >> the whole thing is the biggest cluster if you are trying to do everything wrong that's what came out of the c.a.r.e.s. act in general. you hit the nail on the head the way it was structured was opaque. this is not a bailout. and then we need to rescue you with this eminent domain this is our mandate we are giving you money to compensate. so all of the money given out in the c.a.r.e.s. act to universities already paid by students who got the money from the government anyway to the kennedy center which was shutdown wi

and its branches have a very valuable role in supporting small businesses and small communities. i would say i'm a little hesitant when we talk about growing organizations and government. it's not very efficient, efficient use of the dollar. i do think they have a role but i think representative williams, you've got to fund those things and taxes are just a huge problem and in order to pay for that the tax increases is a problem. >> i appreciate that. i think the interesting part in the context of this hearing is this is an office created by congress in the first administration in the 1990s and it's the work i think there was a feeling back then and i think there is today a lot of times these programs not being fully accessible and how programs and lending opportunities might actually be available. shouldn't we make sure some of that benefits to the communities? a number of us in the committee in the last congress brought this to the attention of the trump administration. [inaudible] very quickly work to put in an action director and some staff who also were there to work in the

needs of small businesses. from this discussion the sbc will establish priorities for the small business commission to work on for the next six to 12 months. and this also includes topics that can be moved forward to the annual retreat. this is a discussion item. and we have our president, sharky laguana who will be leading the discussion for you. >> great. so i think the thought is a simple one. we have been in crisis mode for a long time. delta variant notwithstanding, hopefully we are coming out of that crisis, and we need to think about what our priorities are for moving forward with small business speaking with the director and the rest of the commissioner, we need to look at what to focus on for the year moving forward. so with that, commissioner adams. >> thank you. and i thought this was brilliant when i saw this on the agenda because this is something we need to start talking about. there is stuff on my mind that's bothersome coming out of the pandemic, and i told myself i was going to be positive, but

it's a small-scale diversified vegetable, herb, and small grain farm. miss kennedy also serves on my bipartisan locally based agriculture advisory committee. she has an important perspective on the roles small-scale farmers pli in local agricultural markets and supply chain resillency. the covid-19 pandemic has made even more clear that we must empower and support our local producers to prevent supply chain disruptions. i'm proud that new york's 19th congressional district is represented here today by ms. kennedy. ms. kennedy, it is good to see you. i look forward to hearing your testimony. and learning more about how congress can best support you and other farmers like you in the future. i yield back. chair plaskett: i thank the gentleman. to introduce our fourth witness i'm pleased to yield to the ranking member of the subcommittee, the gentleman from indiana, mr. baird. mr. baird: thank you, madam chair. it is my distinct pleasure toint dues jonathan and kelly shannon to testify before us today. jonathan and kelly are niche market life stock producer

and the small amount of money. and for the program, we need to look at more of the long-term trajectory of what we want to create with this program and establish some really much more mature and programs that have a greater long-term benefit for our legacy businesses. and really help elevate the stature of the program not only within san francisco but nationally as well. so that's enough said with that. then some other updates are i just received notification today from kevin true with the department of environment on the crb. and a letter has been sent out by calrecycle saying they are no longer going to be charging the inlieu fees. and that is good news moving forward, and we'll continue to work on the issue of the charges that businesses experienced around the in lieu fees and fines that are retroactive. and then i am very happy that you had the opportunity to have this time with ted to really have that substantive conversation about what the city is doing and tracking, and so in preparation for next week or nex

and we've -- i think it's really innovative and something that could benefit small farm and small farm businesses, which would be led at a local level but could definitely benefit from federal support certainly. >> thank you very much. i believe mr. brown, do you have anything to add. >> dale browne of the virgin availables. most of the programs aren't available to the virgin islands. we only have rural development, and that requires affordable housing and the small minority producer grant. you have fsa, that is basically loans and programs that require disaster and rcs programs. so these other programs are not available. we are basically two to three miles away from the office itself. and that's an easy trip. >> and i thank everyone for their input. my last 30 seconds, i'm just going to say one of the big things we hear, you know, and i hear the regulation with that broad band issue, i think we hear about that in every single committee, every ad committee we hear about because it is so vital, and we absolutely need to make sure that we are working on that, but i appreciate all the inp

notably impacting small farmers and ranchers, including our small certified organic producers. during the pandemic, producers were required to significantly adapt their business practices and operations to meet the challenges posed by the covid-19. while shifted how these producers were able to participate in agricultural markets. the pandemic further caused unprecedented interferences within supply chains and challenges to market access from small producers serving local markets, local markets which are becoming increasingly more important as a way for producers to add value to their operations. this is true in my own district of the u.s. virgin islands. farmers in the territory are mostly small and local producers who are working to recover from a supply chain disruption. producers from my district are certainly seeking all opportunities to strengthen their supply chain while serving the local community. each year, consumers across the country purchase more and more products from local markets. the usda reported a farm level value of direct food sales totaling $11.8 billion i

the capacity to do extremely small shows.r us for over ten years. there's very little turnover in the staff, so it felt like family. sharky with the small business commission was crucial in pestering supervisor haney and others to really keep our industry top of mind. we closed down on march 13 of 2020 when we heard that there was an order to do so by the mayor, and we had to call that show in the middle of the night. they were in the middle of their sound check, and i had to call the venue and say, we need to cancel the show tonight. >> the fund is for our live music and entertainment venues, and in its first round, it will offer grants of at least $10,000 to qualifying venues. these are venues that offer a signature amount of live entertainment programming before the pandemic and are committed to reopening and offering live entertainment spaces after the pandemic. >> it's going to, you know, just stave off the bleeding for a moment. it's the city contributing to helping make sure these venues are around, to continue to be p

the same for small retailers and banks and the list goes on and on. it was crystal clear small businesses across the country needed the ftc's help but many felt completely ignored. i appreciate your work to increase the effectiveness of the federal trade commission and as you pursue these efforts, i would encourage you to consider are the reforms to instruct the ftc is more responsive to small businesses and less slanted in the favor of larger ones. we need to look at laws related to ethics and financial conflicts of interest and more. small businesses expressed concern the ftc routinely gives favorable treatment to large powerful firms. while ignoring pleas for action to address practices harming small players. when big cap egregiously silage privacy in the law, the ftc's has shown across multiple administrations but it's more than willing to be lax and forgiving when small businesses violate the laws, the ftc brings down the hammer on them wiping out revenues and often shutting them down. this two-tier approach doesn't make sense. congress should ex

small scale farmers organisation fed coca cola is now guatemala. the largest domestic coffee producer from insular cooperative is a special emphasis on educating women. this is something that is not self evident, and they, traditionally patriarchal society, rose mendez from the key chain people, his own, fed, a coca where the board of directors that if you face when you're a woman, so you're places in the kitchen. so it's more credit and you won't inherit anything either, because your husband will take care of your pork to muddy the phoenix. in rosa mendez trained to be an executive at fatty coca cola. as a co op member, she's entitled to financial assistance to increase the loan. we can get from critical kala, it's very helpful for us women to part on the left because at present it's impossible to get one bank valley than those bank course is impulsively of finance . and in her vintage rose mendez encourages other women to emancipate themselves. elements are much important to find the most important message, women in all day, even if we've never s

the capacity to do extremely small shows. staff has been working for us for over ten years. there's very little turnover in the staff, so it felt like family. sharky with the small business commission was crucial in pestering supervisor haney and others to really keep our industry top of mind. we closed down on march 13 of 2020 when we heard that there was an order to do so by the mayor, and we had to call that show in the middle of the night. they were in the middle of their sound check, and i had to call the venue and say, we need to cancel the show tonight. >> the fund is for our live music and entertainment venues, and in its first round, it will offer grants of at least $10,000 to qualifying venues. these are venues that offer a signature amount of live entertainment programming before the pandemic and are committed to reopening and offering live entertainment spaces after the pandemic. >> it's going to, you know, just stave off the bleeding for a moment. it's the city contributing to helping make sure these venues are a

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if small businesses cannot flourish, the economy can't flourish 1 out of 2 people are working for a small. if we don't turn the corner and all of the support like ppp and others fade away, that means we're in a worse spot than in march or april of last year sdpyear >> how important is it for small business owners, john, this idea, enhanced unemployment benefits we gave out stimulus checks. that put money into consumer pockets to spend at small businesses and at the same time an argument has been made the benefits have kept people out of the work force where is the balance for small businesses where does your organization stand on how we should treat the unemployment benefits in the futures in this scenario >> well, i think where we are looking is these unemployment benefits, supplementary ones are coming to aen end. we are looking at child care and transportation we know what humans are experiencing and workers are experiencing which is a host of issues we are focusing and we hope the congress will invest in work force training as much as we can't get workers in the door, we can't get qua

it is a small-scale diversified vegetable, herb, and small greens farm. kennedy also serves on my bipartisan locally based agricultures advisory. she is an important perspective on the roles farmers play at local agricultural markets and supply chain. the covid-19 pandemic is made even clever must support our local to prevent supply chain disruptions ran proudly 19 congressional district as part of this year is good to see a look forward to hearing your testimony and we can best support you and other farmers like you in the future. i yield back. becca think the gentleman entered is the fourth witness simply sealed to the ranking member of the subcommittee the judgment from indiana mr. bayard. expect thank you madam chair. it is my distinct pleasure to introduce jonathan kelly shannon to testify before us a today. jonathan and kelly are niche market livestock producers and live on a 10-acre farm in rural montgomery county, louisiana along with her $10 with a raise cattle, pigs, chickens and goats. jonathan kelly started shannon family farms in 2006 and hav

to answer the first question small businesses like mine it is very unusual to find small businesses thatare willing to absorb the expense. in my experience we have not seen people abusing the system. i think that it accounts less than 1% or 2% and consistently less particularly in a small business we know our employees and it is just much less likely to happen. >> i now recognize the gentleman from louisiana. mr. higgins. >> thank you, madam chair. i am very sorry that all of america is paying attention and we've heard our colleagues feelings by actually showing up in person for oversight committee service. america faces an unprecedented labor shortage. massive challenges that cause our economic recovery to struggle because of the majority's decision to spend trillions of dollars in deficit spending, paying people to stay home. every bit from sea to shining sea that i've had a conversation with either in person, on the telephone and digital town halls through social media, through direct contact and interaction, meeting with large business organizations that represent the needs and inter

ah, cisco cub mirrors is a small farmer. he lives together with his children and grandchildren here over the per find on this. well, i went to school for 3 years. no, no. my parents didn't have the money to allow me to pursue my study. if i see the dog, i attended school from age 8 to 11, then i just started working out in training. so i worked on a coffee on the la, so see if they will know me, which way you don't have enough ink. and in this remote region of mountain this northern guatemala, another small scale farmer, don hath, into a severe hannah, is visiting his father. now, 100 years old, claire used to work as a forced laborer or no coffee plantation, which i hate to coffee. the family converses in my language to live in a while. i was living here. the key is still worth it. i was born here in this modest area. i'm in the village. 0 one. yeah. i agree with one. okay. and it taught us how to work in europe here. there was never enough to live. so people had to go elsewhere to earn money. i guess weighed up on i got, i

and it had to be done to sola, those small criminal, holt and i resisted that. and it was clear of a thought i was family my nephew and had no future at the company. move on to this nicole to a comp calling to consider your mind. well, i scored and then came to the physical categor. well, as an advisor later he became the organization director. hello. yes. when you, the very 1st thing i tried to make clear to them was trying to solve your problem, your bill board that need don't wait for someone to arrive with a gold sack. a life has gone flat, potentially doesn't happen. name in plain all call. we have to tackle the problems out so that it's and see if we can get some support for the house. and i can tell it's all new. my don't say aid anymore. it's been struck from my vocabulary in how a creates dependency. and that's something no one should have made, you should be able to develop a free leg. and at least that's what i learned in this weekly, opposed harder than the own is the coca cola, the sales manager for 3 decades. he's worked with cortner as he demanded

doesn't matter if you think because small businesses are too small to matter or too hard to control,ower. as you said they don't have the clout. eastern the small business administration, they're supposed to be standing up for the little guys in washington, they gave out grants to almost 3,000 minority around women owned businesses from this relief fund. they were it was found that they had done so by discriminatory practices. instead of going to get more money to make it right for everyone, they pulled that back. we cannot have people who are supposed to be standing up for small businesses acting like that. we need better people, not only in washington but which need legal challenges. we need more people standing up and advocating for small businesses. that is just absolutely disgusting behavior. charles: well i know you and chef have big voices and you won't stop. thank you both very much. really, we've got to cover the topic because it seems like it is getting worse. thank you both. by the way, folks i want to tell you about a special we've got coming up. it is on july 21st, proud

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and the small amount of money.rogram, we need to look at more of the long-term trajectory of what we want to create with this program and establish some really much more mature and programs that have a greater long-term benefit for our legacy businesses. and really help elevate the stature of the program not only within san francisco but nationally as well. so that's enough said with that. then some other updates are i just received notification today from kevin true with the department of environment on the crb. and a letter has been sent out by calrecycle saying they are no longer going to be charging the inlieu fees. and that is good news moving forward, and we'll continue to work on the issue of the charges that businesses experienced around the in lieu fees and fines that are retroactive. and then i am very happy that you had the opportunity to have this time with ted to really have that substantive conversation about what the city is doing and tracking, and so in preparation for next week or next meeting on a

his fruits of beautifully red, but much too small. from this cross pollination, a hybrid is create a plant that contains genes from both the large pale tomato and the small red one. from as early as the 900 twenty's sciences around the world have been using this technology, then they go to produce an indestructible tomato. we know about crash for cars, but food the only with the help of genetic engineering was this possible. in 1990 through the slavery saver tomato was launched in the usa one of the trojans listed only 2 movie varieties split. picking scientists began looking for the eternal tomato. oh, i led them to israel for more than 70 years. farmers here have managed to grow fruit and vegetables. in the middle of the me i see eva, university of jerusalem. we need one of the creators of the almost immortal tomato human being of each 79 year old professor emeritus continues to develop perfect hybrid chance. this is a breathing greenhouse. so each plant is different. and i say, well, this blunder looks stronger than this one, for i

as in small town small. every few feet, william runs into someone he knows. >> every time we walk and when we talk to people, they always say hi. we greet people by their first name. >> this is william saying his dream job. the kind of policing is not just catching the bad guys but making sure their victims are taken care of. >> if they are not getting treated right, they get revictimized. >> reporter: there is no better example of that than what happened around here in july. officers answering a call found a 62-year-old chinese speaking woman abandoned by her family. knowing william speaks cantonese and mandarin. >> she didn't know she was abandoned and she asked me when can i go home. when that happens -- that grandma becomes everyone's grandma. >> reporter: at that point, it seems all of central station and many others in the community spraying into action. william says close to 100 phone calls replaced in just a few hours to try to find housing for the woman. >> almost at that point of the last resort wa

she lives in a small 3 room apartment with her 2 children and 2 sisters. i need the most and then we're going to be a really tired. so in a month we used to go out with the friends and the siblings that we can enjoy a moment. so you know, like not exactly party, but it's a place where we can relax and enjoy some music. why? yes. okay. the seasoning grace takes her 2 sisters with her as the head of a company and head of the family. grace is one of the few car owners into town. it's a privilege here. let's have fun tonight. so i'm going to walk summer here. futon has just a handful of bars where young people can meet. grace's favorite is the tim to club party bought for the capitals, affluent youth. ah, few they let loose to pope and rent be a far cry from traditional cultural offerings. the one right now, this is all new to my home and enjoy it. but it's nothing like that. we have to go back to the normal like whatever the, like what we have on like here men and especially women, a free to enjoy themselves without fearing the center of a society that still

less growth, week investment, fewer small businesses. too many americans who feel left behind, too many people who are poorer than their parents. i believe the experiment failed. we have to get back to an economy that grows from the bottom up and middle out. the executive order i'm soon going to be signing puts a full and bashful enforcement of antitrust laws. no more abuse by monopolies, no more bad mergers that lead to mass layoffs and higher prices, fewer options for workers and consumers alike. my executive order includes 72 specific actions. i expect the federal agencies to help restore competition. so we have lower prices, higher wages, more money, more options and more conveniences for the american people. today, i want to focus on three specific actions. first, the fda come of the food and drug administration. they are going to work with states and tribes to safely import prescription drugs from canada. that's one of many actions that will lower prescription drug prices. second, the fda is going to issue rules so that hearing aid

no, i didn't see how big or small they are. randy says that the seeds of hybrid tomatoes are mostly collected by children. many children were working, but now the harvest was over. the fields are almost empty. but in the greenhouse, we can see human silly with this company works for the multinational corporation syngenta faced in switzerland about 10 women and girls of pruning tomato plants. when the smallest of the girls season and other workers signals that she should squat down how long are you up to the 5th grade news? i know you don't go to school anymore. no. how old are you? she's 17 and you find me 18. why don't you go to school? there are, and i'm here only the primary school. how long have you been working? for 3 years. she started before me. it was in a month since when do you work? since she left school at 11, this girl is supposed to be 17. we all find it hard to believe. the syngenta purchases that seats from around $25000.00 mostly small hold firm is out india wheels. this was multinational how it feels about chi

small caps are at 17 times. em is at 14 times.you think about the spread between earnings yield and real yield, rising rates will drive people to places with higher earnings yield. matt: great context. i have to jump in because the president is walking out. let's listen live to president biden. president biden: good afternoon. we are in the midst of an historic economic recovery. because of our successful vaccination program strategy has been working and the immediate relief through the american rescue plan has brought back our economy from the worst economic crisis in nearly a century, america is now on track. we're on track for the highest economic growth in 40 years, one of the highest growth records on record. we designed our economic strategy to be durable for the ups and downs that come with recovery. there are ups and downs. that is why the american rescue plan was designed to help people not just all at once but over the course of the full year, so we could continue supporting families, small businesses, state and local bu

while the small businesses, the small restaurants, and the small construction companies were getting killed because they couldn't find labor, the big tech companies that could afford to pay 25, 30, $40 or more an hour, they were raking it in. they were making it out like bandits. >> not like bandits, david, they were raking in because of values they provided. david: right. >> carol is right there, are a few big tech companies that are on top. i promise you this in five or 10 years in a free market they won't be the same companies on top. that is the nature of this competitive environment. the real worry about big tech isn't even lower earnings. it is government both the left and right think they're public enemy number one. david: the environment you can't compete with the government. >> right. david: that is why the small businesses are in such trouble right now because they're competing with the government on salaries. they can't match what the government is paying out? >> carol, you have written a book on that. david: go ahead, carol. >> i wrote an entire book on this, right, the w

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business, and enjoy the open parks and spaces -- small spaces. but in fiscal year 19-20, there were 4,430 applications for affordable housing for my constituents, over 3,000 in the 94122 zip code, where 2550 irving is located. only 30 applicants were placed in affordable housing, and because we have underinvested in affordable housing, they all moved out of the sunset. it's quite literally like winning the lottery. this is a case for all of our city's affordable housing developments, and we need the courage to do better for our communities. last year, we conducted a community needs assessment as part of sunset forward, our neighborhood community planning process, which aims to stabilize low and moderate income families and seniors in the sunset. we learned that 64% of residents think that housing in the sunset is unaffordable, and 40% their think few -- think their future housing needs will not be met. district 4 has the lowest cumulative housing balance in the housing balance report due to extreme loss of protected status units. in the last deca