U.S. Chamber and Harris Interactive teamed up to lie to public about Obamacare in a recent survey. Read the story from The Washington Post below that exposes the fraud. Here are the important points. –The survey was not a traditional random survey of businesses. Instead it was an opt in of 499 U.S. Chamber members …
The split in business opinion (see story below) on whether the economic world powers represented at the G8 summit should crack down on offshore tax havens that deprive nations of corporate tax revenue is easily understood. Organizations like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which represents multinational corporations, want to protect their big dues paying members …
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In the interest of full disclosure, I serve as the vice chair of the American Sustainable Business Council Action Fund. If you would like to read The Nation story by William Greider in which I am interviewed, click here. Appologies to all my “tree-hugger” friends. ——————————————————————————————————————— The Washington Post March 26, 2013 By Katrina vanden …
National Small Business Week should be a good time for the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) which claims to represent the country’s real job creators. Unfortunately for the NFIB, exactly who is pulling its strings now has the attention of the national media. As John Stoehr writes for Reuters (see below), “A close look at its …
While the latest job numbers released today aren’t as good as they were earlier this year, the country is still adding private sector jobs. And small businesses are once again leading the way. According to the ADP National Employment Report businesses with 1-49 employees accounted for 48.7% of the new jobs. That compares to businesses …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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) …
A procedural vote this week, possibly even today, in the US Senate will determine if President Obama’s American Jobs Act even gets to be debated on the Senate floor. The bill doesn’t have a chance of passing the Senate because it, as most legislation now, can’t get the 60 votes needed to overcome a GOP …
