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Mayor’s Small Business Conference
2010 a Success
Cleve White, Cleve White Nissan is present an award from Mayor Otis Johnson
President
Donates
Nobel
Prize
Money
President Barack Obama
WASHINGTON - President
Obama announced recently
the charities that will
receive a portion of the $1.4
million award that comes
with the Nobel peace prize.
“These organizations
do extraordinary work in the
United States and abroad
helping students, veterans
and countless others in
need,” said President
Obama. “I’m proud to sup
port their work.”
Charities include:
$250,000 to Fisher House;
$200,000 to the Clinton-
Bush Haiti; $125,000 to
College Summit; $125,000
to the Posse Foundation;
$125,000 to the United
Negro College Fund;
$125,000 to the Hispanic
Scholarship Fund; $125,000
to the Appalachian
Leadership and Education
Foundation; $125,000 to the
American Indian College
Fund $100,000 to AfriCare
$100,000 to the Central Asia
Institute.
Obama is the fourth
president to win the prize,
the third to win it while in
office and the first to receive
it during his first year in
office.
From the initial
announcement of Obama’s
winning of the prize, he
made it clear that the funds
would go to chairites to help
continue the very important
work they do.
Over 300 small busi
ness owners and others
gathered in the ballroom of
The Savannah Civic Center
to attend the Mayor's Small
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WASHINGTON, D.C.
-Republican Senators have
obstructed passage of an
amendment by U. S. Sens.
Patty Murray (D-Wash.) and
John Kerry (D-Mass.) that
would have saved at least
100,000 jobs for straggling
parents and created up to
500,000 jobs and training
opportunities for young peo
ple across the country.
“I am extremely disap
pointed that once again the
Republicans have shown that
they care more about scoring
political points than putting
people to work,” said Sen.
Murray.
Sen. Kerry said, “This
was an amendment to help
those hardest hit by the
recession and it would have
brought significant relief to
my state and states across the
country... We’re going to get
back up, dust ourselves off,
and go back to bat on this
issue because it’s just too
important and too many fam
ilies are counting on us.”
The Senators’ amend-
Business Conference.
Under the leadership of
Mayor Otis Johnson, Tosca
Owens and Maronda
Lotson, this conference fea-
ment would extend for six
months the Temporary
Assistance for Needy
Families (TANF) Emergency
Fund, which was first creat
ed as part of the American
Recovery and Reinvestment
Act (ARRA).
Last month, Senator
Kerry and 21 colleagues sent
a letter to Senate Finance
Committee Chairman Max
Baucus (D-Mont.) request-
tured a panel discussion of
small business owners. This
year’s theme was “21st
Century Business Success:
Making a Profit in a
ing an extension of the emer
gency fund.
This amendment would
also commit $1.3 billion to
create up to 500,000 jobs
through the Workforce
Investment Act in order to
build on and expand last
year’s successful summer
jobs program that put over
300,000 young people to
work across the country,
stimulated local economies,
Changing Economy”.
The annual conference
is an initiative of the U.S.
Conference of Mayors for
member cities. It has two
main goals: networking
opportunities and
business/economic develop
ment information.
Presenters for this year’s
conference included: Dara
Barwick, Georgia
Department of Economic
Development; Terri
Denison, Small Business
Administration; and
Christopher Hanks,
Entrepreneur. A business
roundtable included:
Marjorie Young, Carriage
Trade Public Relations; Roy
Jackson, Jackson Brothers
Enterprises; Lowell
Kronowitz, Levy Jewelers,
and Benjamin Polote, Jr.,
The Polote Corporation.
Bert Tenenbaum, President
of Chatham Steel, served as
panel moderator.
This year’s area
Business Spotlight was
Cleve White Nissan of
Statesboro, Ga. The confer
ence is in its fourth year.
and provided at-risk youth
with the skills and training
they need to succeed in the
workforce.
Currently, thirty
states and the District of
Columbia have used this
fund to create more than
100,000 jobs for low-income
parents. The Senators’ legis
lation will save those jobs.
The amendment is off
set by two separate provi
sions. The first offset, known
as “intelligent assignment,”
would provide the Centers
for Medicare and Medicaid
Services (CMS) with the
authority to enroll low-
income Medicare beneficiar
ies into prescription drag
plans that reduce their out-
of-pocket costs and cover the
drags they are prescribed.
The second offset elim
inates the Advanced Earned
Income Tax Credit (AEITC).
The President proposed
eliminating the AEITC in his
Fiscal Year 2011 budget
request because it is used by
very few taxpayers and has a
very high error rate.
Women’s
History
Month
Spotlight:
Dr. Peggy
Blood
Dr. Peggy Blood
In observance of Women’s
History Month, The Savannah
Tribune will spotlight signifi
cant women in our community
and world. This week, we spot
light Dr. Peggy Blood, a distin
guished professor at Savannah
State University. Blood was
selected to travel to Liberia.
Here is her personal account.
“Being selected by the
US Department of State's Art in
Embassies Program to travel
and conduct cultural program
ming for three weeks in Liberia
was most inspiring as an educa
tor and artist. The Republic of
Liberia is located in West
Africa, on the coast bordered
by Sierra Leone, Guinea, Cote
d'Ivoire and the beautiful
Atlantic Ocean. The 3,
500,000 people are painfully
trying to rebuild their country
after several coup d'etats and
one major devastation war that
paralyzed the country.
The objective of my trip
was to foster cross-cultural dia
logue through lectures, work
shops, television and radio
appearances on art by sharing
my art, and the story of the
United States to all segments of
society; beyond the wall of the
diplomatic residences into local
communities in Monrovia. I
was the personal guest of Mrs.
Linda Thomas-Greenfield,
Ambassador to Liberia while
staying in Monrovia. The
Ambassadors, ocean front res
idence is located inside the
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