Washington, DC, October 10, 2012 – The American Sustainable Business Council (ASBC), which represents small- and medium-sized companies, calls on candidates for office to stop misleading voters with bogus data based on inaccurate definitions of small business. Specifically, a report commissioned by the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, […]
I have to admit that I was envious when Mitt Romney cited the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) twice during last week’s Presidential debate. The small-business pretender organization was effectively used by Mr. Romney to give credibility to his argument that allowing the tax rates on households with over $250,000 in income would cause
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Candidate Mitt Romney has been criticized for his past statement that he likes to fire people. Apparently the same holds true for large yellow birds. But as much as Romney’s comment of defunding PBS resulted in the biggest twitter explosion of last night’s debate, it was the GOP candidate’s denial that federal tax law gives
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The new September ADP National Employment Report is out today saying that 162,000 new private-sector jobs were created in the U.S. last month. And once again small businesses with less than 50 workers created the most new jobs—81,000. Since the beginning of this year new jobs from small businesses have accounted for around 50% of
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The efforts in Congress to eviscerate regulations that protect small businesses and consumers continue. The letter below from the American Sustainable Business Council oulines the danger of S.3468. This bill may soon go through a markup so if you want to weigh in, do so now. American Sustainable Business Council August 28, 2012Dear Members of the
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The organizers of the Democratic National Convention this week in Charlotte have put in place a number of efforts to make the event as green as possible. Theo LeCompte, CEO of the Democratic National Convention Committee told The Hill, “We are doing a lot, on a number of fronts, to maximize the sustainable elements of
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Since when is protecting cancer-causing chemicals good for small businesses? That is one of the arguments Congressional supporters of an effort to defund the annual “Report on Carcinogens” (ROC) are making. The ROC is produced by the National Institutes for Environmental Health Science. The NIEHS does not test the chemicals. It reviews scientific literature from
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The first time I mentioned Bill Dunkelberg in my blog was two years ago. Mr. Dunkelberg is the chief economist of the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB), Professor Emeritus of economics at Temple University and chairman of Liberty Bell Bank in New Jersey. Unfortunately, in spite of all those distinguished positions, Mr. Dunkelberg is
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Thursday, Jul 26, 2012 The S.C. director of the National Federation of Independent Business continues his organization’s misleading information campaign about the new health-care law (“Replace health law with reforms that work,” Friday). As the president and CEO of the 5,000-member S.C. Small Business Chamber of Commerce and vice chair of the 150,000-member American Sustainable
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Frank Knapp, Jr., president and CEO of the South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce will testify in Washington, DC at the House Committee for Small Business today at 1 p.m. The hearing is entitled, Regulatory Flexibility Act Compliance: Is EPA Failing Small Business? Mr. Knapp will be representing both the SC Small Business Chamber
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