{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://davids.house.gov/media/press-releases/davids-reintroduces-bipartisan-bill-inspire-youth-entrepreneurship-0", "Davids Reintroduces Bipartisan Bill to Inspire Youth Entrepreneurship", "2026-04-21", "2026", "2026-04", "Democrat", "House", "KS", "Sharice Davids", "D000629", "davids.house.gov", "davids", "https://davids.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "Today, Representatives Sharice Davids (D-KS-03) and Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA-01) reintroduced the bipartisan 21st Century Entrepreneurship Act to increase workforce and entrepreneurship opportunities, especially for students from underserved communities.\n\n\u201cWhether it\u2019s opening a shop on Main Street or starting something new from the ground up, entrepreneurship creates jobs and keeps our communities strong,\u201d said Davids. \u201cBut too many young people \u2014 especially in underserved areas \u2014 don\u2019t have a clear path to get started. This bill helps bridge that gap by giving students the tools, mentorship, and real-world experience they need to launch businesses and support their local economies.\u201d\n\n\u201cAcross Bucks and Montgomery counties, some of the strongest pillars of our community are the entrepreneurs and small business owners who saw an opportunity, took a risk, and built something that now creates jobs and serves others,\u201d said Representative Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA-01). \u201cI have seen how that kind of initiative can change the trajectory of a Main Street, a neighborhood, or a young person\u2019s future. The 21st Century Entrepreneurship Act is about helping more students \u2014 especially those too often left outside these opportunities \u2014 gain the mentorship, skills, and real-world experience to turn ambition into enterprise and promise into progress. That is how we widen the pathway to entrepreneurship and expand economic opportunity for the long term,\u201d\n\nEntrepreneurship is an engine of economic growth, job creation, and innovation, but American entrepreneurship has steadily declined over the past several decades. New businesses accounted for 38 percent of all businesses in the U.S. in 1982, compared to just 29 percent in 2018.\n\nThe bipartisan bill aims to cultivate the next generation of entrepreneurs by requiring the Small Business Administration (SBA) to develop an entrepreneurship curriculum for students in the 21st century and encouraging mentorship from proven business leaders across the country.\n\nWhile most existing federal entrepreneurial development and mentorship programs focus on those with already established careers, this bill would help create a pipeline to entrepreneurship by targeting entrepreneurial education toward students from underprivileged and underrepresented backgrounds.\n\n\u201cThe Center for American Entrepreneurship proudly endorses the bipartisan 21st Century Entrepreneurship Act from Representatives Sharice Davids and Brian Fitzpatrick,\u201d said John Dearie, President, Center for American Entrepreneurship. \u201cStartups drive innovation, economic growth, and most of the new job creation in America. Strengthening entrepreneurship is essential to our economic future. By connecting students in underserved communities with SCORE mentors through Community Learning Centers, this bill will help equip the next generation of great American entrepreneurs with the skills to succeed. We thank Reps. Davids and Fitzpatrick for their leadership and look forward to swift passage.\u201d", 1, "2026-05-14T06:11:37Z", "2026-05-14T06:12:56Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://davids.house.gov/media/press-releases/davids-reintroduces-bipartisan-bill-inspire-youth-entrepreneurship-0"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.2730141170322895, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}