U.S. Secretary of Labor Elaine L. Chao has initiated this innovative demonstration project, The Growing America Through Entrepreneurship, or Project GATE, with Administrator Hector Barreto of the U. S. Small Business Administration to help emerging entrepreneurs in rural and urban communities achieve the American dream of owning their own business. Economic freedom is the foundation for individual success and prosperity. Project GATE supports economic freedom through promoting individual entrepreneurship. Project GATE seeks to energize local small business creation and help diverse urban and rural populations create, support and expand small businesses.

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