Small Business Administration Performance and Financial Highlights Fiscal Year 2007

摘要

The SBA promotes small business development and entrepreneurship through business financing, government contracting, and management assistance. The SBA also works with other federal agencies to reduce the regulatory and paperwork burdens on small businesses and serves as the governments long-term lender to homeowners, renters and businesses affected by disasters. The importance of small businesses to the country is clear: there have been more than eight million new jobs created in just over four years, more than in all the other industrialized nations combined. Two-thirds of these new jobs were created by small businesses. Entrepreneurs enable an economy driven by innovation and regeneration, which keeps the country competitive and growing. Small business can also be a powerful source of community transformation and a bridge to ownership and opportunity for Americans of all backgrounds.