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- your own rebirth .... We want to do everything we can to help everybody in America to be a part of the kind of comprehensive strategy for the future embodied in the empowerment zones, in the enterprise communities, taking on tough jobs like reclaiming
VA HUD 10/20/99 [2]
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- felt the full benefits of our economic prosperity. It maintains our commitments to empowerment zones and enterprise communities, while adding part of my New Markets initiative, to give investors the same incentives to invest in our inner cities and poor
Mayors [2]
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- . And third,' government at all levels must improve the way it serves communities. Our Empowerment Zone/Enterprise Community Initiative has been at the heart of this · agenda; It is bringing new hope to distressed neighborhoods and millions of families
VA HUD 10/20/99 [1]
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- safe, affordable places to live. We value opportunity. This bill expands opportunity to those who have not yet felt the full benefits of our economic prosperity. It maintains our commitments to empowerment zones and enterprise communities, while adding
- at this for six and a half years with our empowerment zones and our enterprise communities and our community development banks -- you have one here-- with the vigorous support of the Community Reinvestment Act. Number two, therefore, American business needs
- by $100 million since .FYI992, a nine percent increase. Each year, the Administra~on provides Sl.i billion in support for scholarships, research grants, fellowships, construction, and equipment for the natioh's black colleges. Empowerment Zones
Race [2]
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- .~ ~PJ~ 12 With Inserts The centerpiece of our urban development strategy is . an aggressive plan to attract businesses and jobs to the cities. We have already created 105 Empowerment Zones and Enterprise Communities -- providing a powerful
Mayors – Speech Drafts
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- to attract businesses and jobs. We have already created 10.5 Empowerment Zones and Enterprise Communities -- providing a powerful combination of tax incentives and freedom from government red tape-- to leverage the power of the private sector, and create jobs
[American Cities] [2]
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- incentives, while the Senate plan includes a scaled down version of the President's proposal. While it would provide tax incentives to current Empowerment Zones and Enterprise Communities, as well as EPA demonstration sites, it would deny these critical tax
- , the administration's program for Empowerment Zones and Enterprise Communities offers a challenge to hundreds of cities: they create an economic growth and community reinvestment strategy for targeted low income neighborhoods. If the strategy emphasizes private sector
- 108 Loan Guarantee Program, the Empowerment Zones and Enterprise Communities, and the Brownfields Tax Incentive. I--4 -. ,::c ,z ~ ,., ;:c c: c::J r- ~ (") Growing the Inner City?, Harlem's experience with the "third way'' antipoverty L~~P!?,e
- ; • Signing the Family and Medical Leave Act so workers can take up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave to 'care for an ill family member without fear of losing their jobs; • Creating nine Economic Empowerment Zones and 95 Enterprise Communities; • Increasing Head
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- -term urban agenda based on the principles developed through the successful Empowerment Zones initiative:· bottom-up, flexible. resultsoriented, values-driven. This report discusses how this agenda will work: T. I ; i j The Empowerment Concept A Set
[Accomplishments] [3]
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- for students. (PL 103-66, signed 8/1 0/93) Empowerment Zone/Enterprise Communities Program Created nine Empowerment Zones and 95 Enterprise Communities with tax. incentives and $100 million perEZ in discretionary investment dollars to spur local community
- expensing limit 75% and provided a targeted small business capital gains tax cut. • Created 9 Economic Empowerment Zones and 95 Enterprise Communities, helping spur economic growth and create jobs in distressed urban and rural communities. • Created
- Administration has worked hard to encourage investment in distressed communities, to create jobs. and' to help these communities rebuild themselves by designing · initiatives like the Empowerment Zones and Enterprise Communities and The Community Development
- the light of hope on places that are in the shadows of our prosperity. We're doing that in empowerment zones and enterprise communities across our land. And I want to commend the Vice President for his tireless, hands-on, day-in/dayout management
- in distressed communities, the Clinton-Gore Administration has created 31 Empowerment Zones and more than I 00 Enterprise Communities, including 20 rural Enterprise Communities that are creating new jobs, new opportunities and stronger communities. President
- , Empowerment Zones and Enterprise Communities (EZ-EC), and National Youth SporiS Program. In addition, the Comprehemive Child Development Program (CCDP) funds grantees to conduct a range of activities from providing health information lo classes on self-esleem
Mayors [1]
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- , not government is the engine of economic opportunity. Second, there must be bottom-up, commnnity-based solutions that bring people together. And third, government at all levels must improve the way it serves communities. Our Empowerment Zone/Enterprise Community
- Economic Council SUBJECT: Background on Recent Developments in the Illinois Economy This memorandum presents backgrou':ld information about current economic issues in Illinois. • Chicago Designated as an Urban Empowerment Zone (EZ) --Chicago was awarded
- illegal drug use through law enforcement. prevention, treatment and interdiction. OCT-09 96 14:48 * T0:4964879 FROM: PAGE:09 Creating Opportunity in America's Communities: Created nina Economic Empowerment Zones and 95 Enterprise Communities
NAACP – 7/17/97 [1]
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- cities. We've created already 105 empowerment zones and enterprise communities, which provide a common combination of tax incentives and freedom from government red tape for you to attract new investment. And we are establishing a network of community
New Markets
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- wanted to highlight the tools that have already been put in place, to encourage more people to invest in those communities: the empowerment zones and the enterprise communities which Vice President Gore has so ably led for 6 years now; the community
Mayors [4]
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- exampl~ of the new partnership my Administration. has forged 'between Washington, the private sectOr, and local commuriities .. Through these orders -- and other community empowerment initiatiyes .like our Empowerment Zones and Enterprise Communities
Race Book [1]
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- providers. Without a critical . level of credit and financing, however, all their efforts will be in vain. I am pleased that the Congress put partisanship aside to pass our New Markets initiative last month. This bill expands and strengthens Empowerment
- economic opportunities. NCAA Partnership-- HUD commits to a partnership to expand the NCAA's Regional Excellence in Academic Preparation (REAP) camps to four empowerment zone/enterprise communities cities next year, with the goal of25 cities by the year
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- : Created nine Economic Empowerment Zones and 95 Enterprise Communities. • Signed the Community Development Banki'ng Bill, September 23, 1994. • Made the Lo~-Income Housing Tax Credit and Mortgage Revenue Bond Program. permanent. FAMILIES AND CHILDREN
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- bu-i;;;iness as usual. They're about oppe:r:tunily and responsibility. We promised to do somethin to help those living in rural poverty o e p emse ves, and we have. Three rural Empowerment Zones and 30 rural Enterprise Communities have received tax
- created 31 Empowerment Zones and more than 100 Enterprise Communities. including 50 rural ECs, which are creating new jobs, new opponunities and stronger communitil~s. This would have a dramatic effect in the areas with high unemployment, weak economies
- . With investment and business and jobs, they can become our partners in the future. And it's a great opportunity we ought not to pass up. (Applause.) I propose more empowerment zones like the one we have right here in Chicago to draw business into poor
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- . over the next 5 years. Created the first federal Empowerment Zones and Enterprise Communities in 1994, providing assistance to distressed urban and rural communities. Designated 105 EZr!ECs, providing $2.5 billion in tax incentives & $1 billion
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- ; the highest home ownership in history; and the longest economic expansion in history. I am grateful for that. I am grateful that under the Vice President's leadership, we've created empowerment zones in Detroit and many other cities; and set up community
- the economic infrastructure by: creating nine F.ccmomic Empowerment Zones at1d 95 Enterprise Communities: investing in new technologies and industries; and instituting the Defense Reinvestment and Conversion Initiative, which reinvests in workers, communities
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- them as they make the transition. Empowerment Zone and Enterprise Community programs and the New Markets initiative would help spread prospe1ity to regions that have been left behind by economic growth by providing funds for growth initiatives and tax
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- of these dimensions. The Empowerment Zones (EZs) and Enterprise Communities (ECs) are one part of the Administration's strategy for rebuilding central city economies. Add sentence on magnitude These programs aim to assist distressed communities by encouraging
NAACP – 7/17/97 [2]
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- to increase Head Start and childhood immunizations and programs that will help a lot of our poorest children. (Applause.) That's why he created empowerment zones to revitalize the inner city and create jobs. Because we know that if we don't rebuild our cities
NGA [2]
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- neighborhoods. But we must do more to empower them to create the conditions in which all families can flourish and to create jobs through investment by business and loans by banks. We should double the number of empowerment zones. They've already brought so much
Arkansas [1]
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- agencies and proactively reaching out to the communities in order to spur a search for solutions. Eastern Arkansas EC, Arkansas Lee, Cross, Monroe, and St. Francis Counties The East Arkansas Enterprise Community has had tremendous success with its youth
- that almost entirely benefit the well-off. America's cities and towns are on the move. Y 6u are creating new businesses, new jobs, training workers, . building and rehabilitation housing. The 13 5 empoweilnent zones and enterprise communities we have
