Minority Enterprise Development Week, 2018

Vol. 83

Thursday,

No. 202

October 18, 2018

Part IV

The President

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Proclamation 9805--Minority Enterprise Development Week, 2018

Proclamation 9806--National School Lunch Week, 2018

Proclamation 9807--Blind Americans Equality Day, 2018

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Title 3--

The President

Proclamation 9805 of October 12, 2018

Minority Enterprise Development Week, 2018

By the President of the United States of America

A Proclamation

During Minority Enterprise Development Week, we

celebrate the success of minority-owned businesses and

recognize their contributions to our Nation's

prosperity. These businesses are part of the bedrock of

our economy, employing eight million people and

contributing more than $1 trillion in economic output

each year.

My Administration is committed to empowering minority

business owners by creating an environment in which all

businesses can expand and thrive. We have eliminated

unnecessary and burdensome regulations and effected

commonsense, pro-growth policies. The Tax Cuts and Jobs

Act enacted the biggest tax cuts and reforms in

American history. Importantly, it created the

Opportunity Zones Program, through which we are

rewarding businesses that invest in distressed

communities and that create jobs for those who, all too

often, are left behind. We are also leveling the

playing field for American businesses by renegotiating

and modernizing our trade agreements, including by

replacing the North American Free Trade Agreement with

the new United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement.

Taken together, these new policies are delivering real

results for the American people. Our Nation's

unemployment rate has reached its lowest level in 50

years. Minority unemployment rates have fallen to

record lows, with the unemployment rate for African

Americans falling below 6 percent for the first time in

history. The unemployment rate for Hispanic Americans

and Asian Americans has also reached historic lows.

As minority-owned businesses continue to benefit from

our resurgent economy, my Administration is looking to

take additional steps to support these key drivers of

economic growth. The Department of Commerce's Minority

Business Development Agency is expanding its focus to

include policy analysis that will identify

opportunities for minority business enterprises across

our country. Additionally, the new National Council for

the American Worker is developing a National Workforce

Strategy. Given the historically tight labor market and

recent technological change, our Nation needs a

workforce strategy that champions effective, results-

driven education and training to meet the needs of

students, workers, and businesses.

In the United States of America, each person has the

opportunity to achieve their dreams and to build a

better future for themselves and their families.

Minority business owners exemplify this fundamental

truth about our great Nation. This week in particular,

we are grateful for the minority business owners who

dedicate their time, energy, and entrepreneurial skills

each day to improving the economy and restoring the

American spirit in every community across the Nation.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, 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 14 through

October 20, 2018, as National Minority Enterprise

Development Week. I call upon all Americans to

celebrate this week with programs, ceremonies, and

activities to recognize the many contributions of

American minority business enterprises.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this

twelfth day of October, in the year of our Lord two

thousand eighteen, and of the Independence of the

United States of America the two hundred and forty-

third.