Ending his three-day, cross-country tour where he spoke on the administration's efforts to lower student college loan payments, President Obama also continues with his plan to outline steps to help businesses create jobs. Through two Presidential Memoranda issued today, the Obama Administration will take steps to speed up the transfer of federal research and development from the laboratory to the marketplace, and it will create BusinessUSA, a one-stop, central online platform where small businesses and businesses of all sizes that want to begin or increase exporting can access information about available federal programs without having to waste time navigating the federal bureaucracy. These announcements are part of a series of executive actions to put Americans back to work and strengthen the economy because we can’t wait for Congressional Republicans to act. “With too many families struggling and too many businesses fighting to keep their doors open, we can’t wait for C...
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