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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Business
Gene Marks

Why aren’t more small business owners taking advantage of government help?

A street vendor in San Francisco, California.
A street vendor in San Francisco, California. Photograph: Directphoto Collection/Alamy

According to a new report, the US government “isn’t doing enough” for small businesses. I’m calling baloney.

“Business owners don’t feel like the programs are all that effective and they also don’t even feel like they have a sense of what’s available, some of which maybe is effective,” said Joe Wall, national director of Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses Voices, of the survey of more than 1,800 small businesses in 48 states.

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