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Melissa Hughes: “We had over 9,500 businesses in all 72 counties go into…”

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

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WI Gubernatorial Candidate Missy Huges Speaks at CoCo Dems Headquarters

Published | Video Starts at 09:21

And so we created a program and said, for a small grant, you can go into that space and we will support you as a business going into that space. We had over 9,500 businesses in all 72 counties go into empty spaces [through the Main Street Bounce Back program]. And these are programs that continue today. Communities have said, this was such a good program and we're gonna do this ourselves in our own community. (09:21–09:29)

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Asserts that over 9,500 businesses participated in the Main Street Bounce Back program across all 72 Wisconsin counties.

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