Women entrepreneurs are on the rise — let's continue the trend

BY ELAINE PARKER, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR — 01/19/19 — **BY ELAINE PARKER, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR — 01/19/19**

The economic advances the U.S. has made over the past two years would have been hard to imagine just five years ago.

Since the 2016 election, upwards of 5 million jobs have been created, which pulled the unemployment rate below 4 percent for the first time since 2000. Moreover, the economic growth rate in 2018 surpassed what many thought was possible in the recent past.

While federal policies like lowering tax rates and reducing the government red tape that had strangled many businesses during the previous administration laid the groundwork for such advancement, it’s important to give credit to the people that transformed strokes of a pen into tangible economic progress.

As many know, these American economic heroes are small business owners.