host: we will go on to edward in grantville, georgia. caller: yes, i'm calling, i'm a small business owner. i run a small kennel and i'm a dog trainer. during the first cares act i didn't qualify because i didn't have any employees for any assistance. then the state unemployment set i qualified, but i draw small pension -- i lost thousands of dollars from march to july. i just won a get started again. something with all these states, responsible for seeing these people get the money. kevin: that's an excellent question. i think many ran into that situation as well >> c-span is live at the white house just waiting for president joe biden to deliver remarks on his racial equity agenda. president biden: my campaign for president, i made it very clear that the moment had arrived as a nation where we face the racial inequities in america's systemic racism that has plagued our nation for far, far too lofpblgttitsdz over the course of the last year that the blinders has been taken off the american people. but what many americans didn't see or h

host: we will go on to edward in grantville, georgia. caller: yes, i'm calling, i'm a small business owner. i run a small kennel and i'm a dog trainer. during the first cares act i didn't qualify because i didn't have any employees for any assistance. then the state unemployment set i qualified, but i draw small pension -- i lost thousands of dollars from march to july. i just won a get started again. something with all these

host: we will go on to edward in grantville, georgia. caller: yes, i'm calling, i'm a small business owner. i run a small kennel and i'm a dog trainer. during the first cares act i didn't qualify because i didn't have any employees for any assistance. then the state unemployment set i qualified, but i draw small pension -- i lost thousands of dollars from march to july. i just won a get started again. something with all these states, responsible for seeing these people get the money. kevin: that's an excellent question. i think many ran into that situation as well. the cares act did give -- it might've been the family's first coronavirus response act did give state unemployment agencies money to improve their operations, but those state unemployment agencies were overwhelmed and in fact a lot of their software goes back to 1970's technology. they were unfortunately not prepared, many were not prepared for the demand that came through. it's my hope that they might have used that money to improve their system. i don't know whether they hav

host: we will go on to edward in grantville, georgia.ler: yes, i'm calling, i'm a small business owner. i run a small kennel and i'm a dog trainer. during the first cares act i didn't qualify because i didn't have any employees for any assistance. then the state unemployment set i qualified, but i draw small pension -- i lost thousands of dollars from march to july. i just won a get started again. something with all these states, responsible for seeing these people get the money. kevin: that's an excellent question. i think many ran into that situation as well. the cares act did give -- it might've been the family's first coronavirus response act did give state unemployment agencies money to improve their operations, but those state unemployment agencies were overwhelmed and in fact a lot of their software goes back to 1970's technology. they were unfortunately not prepared, many were not prepared for the demand that came through. it's my hope that they might have used that money to improve their system. i don't know whether they have, i