Small Business Owners Discuss Pandemic Recovery Challenges With Rep. Kweisi Mfume

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BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Small concern owners met with Congressman Kweisi Mfume connected Tuesday successful East Baltimore to speech astir the challenges they person been facing arsenic they retrieve from the pandemic.

“This was an opportunity, a precise important accidental to perceive first-hand from tiny concern owners successful the Greater Baltimore area,” said Congressman Mfume.

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The congressman hosted a roundtable treatment with Baltimore tiny concern owners astatine the East Baltimore Historical Library to larn much astir the problems they are facing.

Barnett Carroll, the president of Aegis Mechanical Corporation (a commercialized mechanical contracting company), was 1 of the owners invited to the discussion. He told WJZ that galore tiny businesses are facing a slew of problems close now.

“Delivery times, pb times for instrumentality and materials, escalating prices, there’s nary shortage of challenges,” said Carroll.

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Inflation, proviso chain, hiring problems and issues moving with the Small Business Administration are immoderate of the difficulties the owners brought up during the discussion.

Congressman Mfume, who is the vice-chair of the House Committee connected Small Business, said it is important to perceive straight from tiny concern owners truthful helium tin instrumentality their feedback backmost to Capitol Hill.

“It’s precise important for maine to travel into communities similar this to perceive this and to person the close benignant of instrumentality distant to spell backmost to legislature and to marque adjustments,” the congressman said.

Caroll said helium is hopeful that the gathering volition assistance marque a difference.

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“I’m optimistic that immoderate notes were taken and there’s going to beryllium immoderate travel up connected immoderate things that don’t conscionable interaction maine but interaction connected a batch of people,” helium said.

Stetson Miller

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