By Rhonda Abrams, USA TODAY January 20, 2012 Want an SBA loan? Don’t bother applying if you needed less than a few hundred thousand dollars. In looking at President Obama‘s just-announced proposal to combine the SBA with five other agencies, I’m fearful we’ll soon return to the days when small business received little attention and […]
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Amercian Sustainable Business Council FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 4, 2011 CONTACT: Amy Kennedy, 703-302-8392; Tanara Bowie, tbowie@tigercomm.us, 703-302-8383 WASHINGTON, DC—Today, the American Sustainable Business Council (ASBC), a network of business organizations representing more than 100,000 companies and 300,000 business leaders, applauded President Obama’s appointment of Richard Cordray as head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) has issued its findings on why the Small Business Lending Fund (SBLF) passed by Congress in 2010 turned into an abysmal failure in promoting loans to small businesses. Only 332 of the 935 community banks applying for the extremely low interest funds to be used for the loans were
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The high drama is back in Washington as this Friday is the deadline for passage of a spending bill that will keep the doors open on the federal government. Getting that done is intricately married to passing legislation to extend the payroll tax cut for 160 million working Americans and also extending federal unemployment benefits.
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The story below is must read for all, especially those who think financial reform (Dodd-Frank) went too far. To all those in Congress who want to repeal Dodd-Frank, here’s the story about the big banks you are defending and why Dodd-Frank didn’t go far enough. Bloomberg11-28-11 Secret Fed Loans Gave Banks $13 Billion By Bob
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This week the U.S. House is expected to start voting on legislation to turn back regulations and make it nearly impossible for federal agencies to develop new regulations in the future. If that happens, Congress might as well just stop passing any new laws because the rules for implementing them will never be developed. One
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The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to decide possibly today that it will take up the Florida case opposing national health care reform—the Affordable Care Act or as it is now commonly called “Obamacare”. Everyone expects that that the Court will rule in 2012 whether the individual mandate for almost every American to purchase health
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A New York Times/CBS news poll out yesterday found that 2/3 of Americans oppose tax cuts for corporations. And in a clear demonstration of why the same poll found that the public’s approval of Congress is at an all-time low of only 9%, U.S. House Ways and Means Committee Chairman, Dave Camp (R-Michigan) proposed yesterday
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On the 10th anniversary of 9/11 my friend Tricia DeGennaro, a professor at New York University, gives her reflection on the occasion. Ten years after 9/11: Will we ever get beyond war? By Patricia DeGennaro It is often hard to gauge how a person will react during a crisis let alone one like September 11th. After such
The Hill 8/23/11 By Mike Lillis Almost 80 percent of lawmakers have no academic background in business or economics, even as Congress grapples with deficits, unemployment and other economic issues of tremendous complexity, according to an independent analysis released Tuesday. The Employment Policies Institute (EPI) found that only 8.4 percent of lawmakers majored in economics
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