Minority Enterprise Development Week, 2015

Vol. 80

Wednesday,

No. 203

October 21, 2015

Part II

The President

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Proclamation 9350--Minority Enterprise Development Week, 2015

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Title 3--
The President

Proclamation 9350 of October 15, 2015

Minority Enterprise Development Week, 2015

By the President of the United States of America

A Proclamation

America is at its best when all our people have the
tools and resources they need to pursue their dreams
and meet their full potential. Entrepreneurs help spur
innovation and prosperity, and ensuring that minority-
owned businesses remain strong and vibrant is vital to
driving our Nation's progress. During Minority
Enterprise Development Week, we recognize the crucial
role they play in our economy, and we recommit to
upholding one of our founding ideals: that all people--
regardless of what they look like or where they come
from--can reach for their piece of the American dream
and contribute to our country's success.

Minority-owned firms comprise over one-fifth of our
Nation's businesses and add $1 trillion in output to
our economy each year. My Administration is committed
to supporting these engines of growth, which is why we
have cut taxes 18 times for America's small
businesses--of which roughly 15 percent are minority-
owned. Many minority enterprises also depend on exports
as an important source of revenue, and I am pursuing a
trade agenda that will allow our businesses to be at
the center of today's global economy--further enabling
them to expand their horizons while strengthening our
middle class. And in an effort to equip the business
community with the most relevant information needed to
navigate bureaucracy, we launched www.Business.USA.gov,
where firms can find services to help them hire more
people and grow their enterprise.

For over two centuries, America has advanced thanks to
the grit and inherent ingenuity of our people.
Throughout Minority Enterprise Development Week, let us
rededicate ourselves to continuing this legacy by
empowering all our citizens to utilize their unique
talents and abilities and by working to ensure our
minority-owned enterprises have every chance to
flourish and succeed.

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 October 18 through
October 24, 2015, 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.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
fifteenth day of October, in the year of our Lord two
thousand fifteen, and of the Independence of the United
States of America the two hundred and fortieth.