The media reported that the government’s attorney, Solicitor General Donald Verrilli Jr., had a tough day yesterday arguing in front of the Supreme Court that the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate was constitutional. His opening remarks were apparently not as coherent as they should have been and he consequently sustained some very negative questions from […]
Two recent news stories have challenged the universal belief that small businesses are the job creators. An AP story on February 17 was titled, “The Truth is That Small Businesses Are Not Good At Creating Jobs.” Seven days later a New York Times story’s heading said, “Small Companies Create More Jobs? Maybe Not”. But before
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I know that I pick on these guys relentlessly but every once in a while they produce some good information. I’m talking about the NFIB (National Federation of Independent Business) or in this case the NFIB Research Foundation. The Foundation released a new study, Small Business, Credit Access, and a Lingering Recession. William J. Dennis
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The political season is in full bloom and partisan ads are everywhere. But here is a unique one. Read the script of this radio commercial and guess which organization produced it. The start of a new year can bring a sense of a fresh start, a new beginning.But America’s small-business owners aren’t looking at January
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The lead story for the 7 AM East coast viewers of the Today Show (NBC) this morning was a report by Carl Quintanilla of CNBC. Quintanilla’s gave an analysis of the good economic news that unemployment in December was down 11% from the previous year and the four week average unemployment rate is at the
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As we end 2011, here are two good pieces of news for small business. First, I actually have something good to say about the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB). I haven’t been very charitable to the organization over the years because they always seem to side with the U.S. Chamber on issues. The NFIB’s complaints
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On this Day of Action for the Occupy movement fighting for the 99% of Americans outraged over corporate greed on Wall Street and in Congress that is destroying the middle-class, we now have a poster child for the 1%–Tom Donohue, president and CEO of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. The U.S. Chamber is the leading
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PoliticoLetter to the EditorNovember 9, 2011 Former Sen. Blanche Lincoln, in her Opinion piece “Why Small Businesses Matter” (POLITICO, Nov. 1), insists that too much regulation is “the roadblock that many small businesses cite as their greatest impediment to growth.” But Lincoln, who is now the chairwoman of an anti-regulation organization created and funded by
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Tuesday I challenged any real business owner making over $1 million a year to contact me to discuss the proposed millionaire surtax to pay for the President’s American Jobs Act. (A new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll shows about 64% public approval for both the surtax and jobs plan). The U.S. Chamber, National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB)
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The news story below is a sad tale of how partisan politics, lack of administrative focus and regulatory slowness turned what should have been a boost for small business into a failed effort. Nobody supported the Small Business Lending Fund more than I did. I even participated in a press conference at the Capitol with
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