Kamala Harris discusses economic opportunities in Atlanta

Vice President Kamala Harris brought her Economic Opportunity for All Tour to Atlanta for the second time on Friday, June 14. She spoke to the crowd at the 100 Black Men of America conference in downtown Atlanta about venture capital opportunities for minority-owned small businesses. home ownership and debt prevention.

Harris also spoke about policies proposed and implemented by the Biden administration aimed at closing the racial wealth gap.

“There are barriers built into the system that need to be overcome to give people that opportunity – and it’s not a handout,” she said in a discussion moderated by artist Steve Harvey. “It’s about giving people the opportunity to compete, giving hard-working people the opportunity to progress and not just get by.”

The vice president, who visited Atlanta in April during an earlier stop on his tour, is expected to be in the city again Tuesday to speak about gun violence.

This story comes to Rough Draft Atlanta through a reporting partnership with GPB News, a nonprofit newsroom covering the state of Georgia.