The U.S. Census Bureau is holding two major events to discuss the boom in the nation’s minority- and women-owned businesses. The findings are from the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2002 Survey of Business Owners. The tabulations provide the latest statistics on businesses owned by Hispanics, blacks, Asians, American Indians and Alaska natives, native Hawaiians and other Pacific islanders and women in the nation, the 50 states and the District of Columbia.

Participants:
Marc Morial, president and CEO, National Urban League
Ronald Langston, national director, Minority Business Development Agency
Stanley Rolark, chief, Customer Liaison Office, U.S. Census Bureau

Participants:
James T. Christy, director, Los Angeles Regional Office, U.S. Census Bureau
Alberto Alvarado, district director, U.S. Small Business Administration
Melany Dela Cruz, coordinator and research analyst, National Asian Pacific American
   Community Development Data Center, UCLA
Jack Kyser, senior vice president and chief economist, Los Angeles County Economic
   Development Corporation
D.V. “Sonny” Flores, president, PEC Corporation
Paul Ong, director, Ralph and Goldy Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies, UCLA

Louis Kincannon, director, U.S. Census Bureau, will present remarks, via videotape, at both events.

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