{"id":21296,"date":"2024-01-10T12:57:32","date_gmt":"2024-01-10T17:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/?post_type=press-releases&#038;p=21296"},"modified":"2024-01-10T12:57:33","modified_gmt":"2024-01-10T17:57:33","slug":"sen-ossoff-strengthening-resources-for-small-business-owners-in-hiawassee","status":"publish","type":"press-releases","link":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/press-releases\/sen-ossoff-strengthening-resources-for-small-business-owners-in-hiawassee\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Ossoff Strengthening Resources for Small Business Owners in Hiawassee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Hiawassee, Ga. \u2014&nbsp;<\/strong>U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff is delivering new resources to help small business owners in Hiawassee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sens. Ossoff and Reverend Raphael Warnock are delivering a $93,047 grant through the USDA\u2019s Rural Business Development Grant program to help Hiawassee develop a functional full-service business development center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Funding will be used to furnish the center located in the Paris Business Center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI am pleased to help deliver these resources to expand opportunities for small business owners in North Georgia. Senator Warnock and I remain committed to supporting small business owners across the State of Georgia,\u201d&nbsp;<strong>Sen. Ossoff said.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sen. Ossoff continues to advocate for small businesses across Georgia&nbsp;and the strengthening of their access to the marketplace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In November, Sen. Ossoff also delivered $749,896 through the Economic Development Administration (EDA) to Spelman College as part of the Center for Black Entrepreneurship Launch Incubator for Traction (CBE LIFT) project.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In July, Sen. Ossoff&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/press-releases\/sen-ossoff-leading-push-to-reopen-atlanta-job-corps-center-expand-workforce-training-in-georgia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">launched<\/a>&nbsp;an inquiry with the Department of Labor (DOL) to reopen the Job Corps Atlanta site, which provided housing and tailored professional training to students seeking jobs in Georgia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"># # #&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hiawassee, Ga. \u2014&nbsp;U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff is delivering new resources to help small business owners in Hiawassee. Sens. Ossoff and Reverend Raphael Warnock are delivering a $93,047 grant through the USDA\u2019s Rural Business Development Grant program to help Hiawassee develop a functional full-service business development center. Funding will be used to furnish the center located [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21296","press-releases","type-press-releases","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/21296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/press-releases"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/21296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21298,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/21296\/revisions\/21298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}