[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 147 (Thursday, July 31, 2014)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 44253-44254]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-18160]


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                Proclamation 9149 of July 25, 2014

                
Minority Enterprise Development Week, 2014

                By the President of the United States of America

                A Proclamation

                Our Nation thrives when we fulfill the promise of 
                opportunity for all--when each of us has the same 
                chance to succeed, when every American can find pride 
                and independence in their work, when our shared 
                prosperity rests upon the broad shoulders of a rising 
                middle class. With talent, dedication, and bold ideas, 
                minority entrepreneurs reach for that promise. They 
                bring jobs and services to communities across our 
                country. They innovate and create. They open new 
                markets to goods stamped ``Made in the U.S.A.'' During 
                Minority Enterprise Development Week, we celebrate 
                their essential role in our economy and our 
                communities.

                Minority-owned businesses employ millions of Americans, 
                and my Administration is proud to invest in their 
                success. We have increased access to contracts and 
                capital, reduced burdensome paperwork, and connected 
                more minority enterprises to booming export markets. 
                Since I took office, my Administration has made more 
                loans to small business owners than any other. By 
                hosting workshops and through www.Business.USA.gov, we 
                are empowering minority entrepreneurs with the tools to 
                help their businesses grow.

                America's great strength lies in our diversity--of 
                people, perspectives, and ideas. We cannot succeed when 
                a shrinking few do very well and a growing many barely 
                make it. But if we invest in small businesses and give 
                all our entrepreneurs a chance to compete, new 
                opportunities will open, and we will flourish--as 
                individuals and as a Nation.

                NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the 
                United States of America, by virtue of the authority 
                vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the 
                United States, do hereby proclaim July 27 through 
                August 2, 2014, as Minority Enterprise Development 
                Week. I call upon all Americans to celebrate this week 
                with appropriate programs, ceremonies, and activities 
                to recognize the many contributions of our Nation's 
                minority enterprises.

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                IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 
                twenty-fifth day of July, in the year of our Lord two 
                thousand fourteen, and of the Independence of the 
                United States of America the two hundred and thirty-
                ninth.
                
                
                    (Presidential Sig.)

[FR Doc. 2014-18160
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