Wednesday, April 15, 2009

SBA Urged to Jump Start Lending

I was reading the Washington Post this morning and a great article on the SBA caught my eye - “Small-Business Agency Prodded to Spur Lending”.

The article begins with “The chairman of the House Committee on Small Business yesterday urged the new head of the Small Business Administration to try to jump-start lending by using provisions in the economic stimulus bill that so far have sat idle.”

The stimulus bill passed a few months ago included the “Business Stabilization Loan Program and it’s goal is to “provide loans of up to $35,000 to small businesses so they can make payments on their outstanding debt. The loans would be 100 percent guaranteed by SBA”.

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