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Melissa Hughes: “We created the Main Street Bounce Back program and over…”

Featuring: Melissa Hughes, Secretary and CEO of the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation

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Missy Hughes remarks during the WisDems Convention

Published | Video Starts at 03:08

And within just a few months, we had delivered over 65,000 grants to small businesses, making Wisconsin number one in the country for investing in small businesses and economic development. But our main streets were still struggling, and we needed to help them. We created the Main Street Bounce Back program and over 9,500 businesses, 9,500 Wisconsinites, in the face of crazy times, said, I want to build something myself. I want to take my business from my garage from my kitchen table and put it in a storefront on a main street. (03:08–03:22)

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