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Anna Richter 12/15/2000 06:00:26 PM Record Type: Record To: Andrea Kane/OPD/EOP@EOP, Margy Waller/OPD/EOP@EOP, Julie T. Bosland/OPD/EOP@EOP Christina S. Ho/OPD/EOP@EOP CC: Subject: FACT SHEET - PRESIDENT CLINTON'S NEW MARKETS INITIATIVE: REVITALIZING AMERICA'S UNDERSERVED COMMUNITIES Communications would like us to push the final budget wins documents out to key constituents we work with. The other document will follow, but I thought you may have some groups/contacts who would be interested in it. IGA, OPL and other depts are also pushing this out. Forwarded by Anna Richter/OPD/EOP on 12/15/2000 05:58 PM Stephen N. Boyd 12/15/2000 05:56:13 PM Record Type: Record To: CC: Subject: FACT SHEET - PRESIDENT CLINTON'S NEW MARKETS INITIATIVE: REVITALIZING AMERICA'S UNDERSERVED COMMUNITIES PRESIDENT CLINTON'S NEW MARKETS INITIATIVE: REVITALIZING AMERICA'S UNDERSERVED COMMUNITIES December 14, 2000 Today, President Clinton is pleased to announce the passage of the historic new bipartisan New Markets and Community Renewal initiative. This announcement is the outcome of the commitment President Clinton and Speaker Hastert made in Chicago last Nov. to develop a bipartisan legislative initiative on New Markets and revitalizing impoverished communities this year. This initiative will help encourage private sector equity investment in underserved communities throughout the country to ensure that all Americans share in our nation's economic prosperity. The President's New Markets Initiative was originally proposed in President Clinton and Vice-President Gore's FY 2000 budget. President Clinton has highlighted the potential of the nation's New Markets in three separate trips across America to underserved inner city and rural communities like Newark, NJ, Hartford, CT, the Mississippi Delta, Appalachia, and rural Arkansas, and the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in S. Dakota. THE KEY ELEMENTS OF THE LEGISLATION ARE: NEW MARKETS INITIATIVES: The New Markets Tax Credit. The credit will spur $15 billion in equity investment for business growth in low- and moderate-income rural and urban communities throughout the United States and Puerto Rico. The credit, worth over 30 percent