Testimony Governor Randall S. Kroszner Effects of the financial crisis on small business

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Testimony
Governor Randall S. Kroszner
Effects of the financial crisis on small business
Before the Committee on Small Business, U.S. House of Representatives
November 20, 2008

Chairwoman Velázquez, Ranking Member Chabot, and members of the Committee, I am pleased to appear before you on behalf of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System to discuss the availability of credit to small businesses.

Small businesses are critical to the health of the U.S. economy. They generate more than half of nonfarm business gross domestic product, employ more than half of private-sector workers, and over the past decade have created well over half of net new jobs annually. Moreover, larger firms often begin as smaller firms that prosper and grow. If small businesses are to continue to provide major benefits to the economy, their access to credit is clearly a high priority. My statement today will address how the ongoing turmoil in the financial sector and the weakening

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