National Entrepreneurship Month, 2022, 66525-66526 [2022-24165]

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[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 212 (Thursday, November 3, 2022)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 66525-66526]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-24165]



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Vol. 87

Thursday,

No. 212

November 3, 2022

Part VI





The President





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Proclamation 10487--National Entrepreneurship Month, 2022



Proclamation 10488--National Family Caregivers Month, 2022



Proclamation 10489--National Lung Cancer Awareness Month, 2022



Proclamation 10490--National Native American Heritage Month, 2022



Proclamation 10491--National Veterans and Military Families Month, 2022


                        Presidential Documents 



Federal Register / Vol. 87 , No. 212 / Thursday, November 3, 2022 / 
Presidential Documents

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Title 3--
The President

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                Proclamation 10487 of October 31, 2022

                
National Entrepreneurship Month, 2022

                By the President of the United States of America

                A Proclamation

                During National Entrepreneurship Month, we celebrate 
                the doers, dreamers, and job creators whose vision and 
                grit fuel our economy and capture the essence of 
                America.

                Starting and owning a business has always been a key 
                path to the American Dream--a way to build wealth, 
                serve your neighbors, and leave a mark in a community 
                and on the world. Requiring risk-taking and daring, 
                entrepreneurs faced additional challenges during the 
                pandemic and the economic crisis that it created. Two 
                years ago, hundreds of thousands of small businesses 
                closed, while others struggled to find workers and 
                stock their shelves. But as we have recovered, 
                Americans have responded with entrepreneurial spirit, 
                seizing the opportunity to build new businesses and 
                launch new careers.

                Our Administration is working across the board to help 
                them all succeed. Today, American entrepreneurship is 
                booming. A record 5.4 million new businesses were 
                started in 2021, over 20 percent more than any year on 
                record. New entrepreneurship rates have increased the 
                most among minorities, particularly in Hispanic and 
                Black communities.

                The American Rescue Plan distributed $450 billion in 
                emergency relief to more than 6 million businesses at 
                the height of the pandemic. The Restaurant 
                Revitalization Fund kept restaurants open. Our expanded 
                State Small Business Credit Initiative is helping 
                entrepreneurs tap $10 billion in investment and loans, 
                and we are making the Minority Business Development 
                Agency permanent to boost minority entrepreneurs' 
                access to capital and markets.

                Meanwhile, our Bipartisan Infrastructure Law is 
                rebuilding America's roads, bridges, railways, and 
                ports so businesses can get goods to consumers quickly 
                and affordably. It is bringing high-speed broadband to 
                small towns and rural areas so Americans anywhere can 
                run a business online. Our CHIPS and Science Act is 
                making historic investments in semiconductor companies 
                that produce the tiny computer chips that power 
                everything from smartphones to cars--benefitting 
                thousands of smaller businesses along the supply chain. 
                Our Inflation Reduction Act is slashing health 
                insurance and energy costs for entrepreneurs, 
                increasing research-and-development tax credits, and 
                incentivizing manufacturers to use American suppliers, 
                creating more good-paying jobs. We are also investing 
                in small business support and STEM education to give 
                entrepreneurs access to the skills and workforce needed 
                to thrive. We are making sure that when the Federal 
                Government spends taxpayer money to buy the things it 
                needs, it buys them from American companies--including 
                from small disadvantaged businesses, to whom we have 
                already awarded a record amount of contracting dollars.

                I have long said that America can be defined in one 
                word: possibilities. Entrepreneurs' willingness to take 
                risks, work hard, and never quit make those 
                possibilities come alive. They turn vision into reality 
                and ideas into products, profits, and national 
                prosperity. This month, we celebrate their 
                contributions as a point of national pride and recommit 
                to giving them the space and support to make sure 
                America wins the 21st century.

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                NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., 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 November 2022 
                as National Entrepreneurship Month. I call upon all 
                Americans to commemorate this month with appropriate 
                programs and activities and to celebrate November 15, 
                2022, as National Entrepreneurs' Day.

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

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