Where Do Jobs Come From?
What happens when you bring together small business owners, academics, and policymakers to discuss the issue of job creation? You get the Office of Advocacy’s most recent symposium, High-Impact Entrepreneurship Outlook: Finance and…
RFA@30: Regulations, Cupcakes, Sunlight, and Looking Before You Leap
“It takes a special breed to get up and get excited about celebrating the 30th anniversary of a law requiring regulatory fairness!” said Deputy Administrator Marie Johns at the start of Advocacy’s celebration of the 30th anniversary of…
Advisory Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship Holds First Meeting
Chief Counsel for Advocacy Winslow Sargeant attended the inaugural meeting of the National Advisory Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the U.S. Department of Commerce on Thursday. The council is made up of 26 national leaders in…
Small Business, Jobs, and the Tax Cut Debate
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner was the featured speaker in an August 4 panel that focused in part on how tax cuts would affect small businesses and their role in job creation.
John Podesta of the Center for American Progress…
President Obama Announces Amended ADA Regulations and New Proposals
To commemorate the 20th Anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), President Barack Obama announced Monday the publication of the final rule that amends the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) regulation implementing Title III of…
Small Businesses Face Difficulties Deploying Oil Spill Cleanup Technologies
The Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee heard from entrepreneurs struggling with the evaluation process for Gulf Coast oil spill cleanup proposals at a June 17 hearing.
A movie star, an Environmental Protection Agency…
A Catch-22 in Small Business Lending
On June 9, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke testified before the House Committee on the Budget. Chairman John Spratt (D-S.C.) and Ranking Member Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) were in attendance, along with many committee members from both…
Advocacy Staff Attends Law Conference
On Tuesday, June 1, members from Advocacy’s interagency team attended the Sixth Annual Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice Institute Rulemaking Conference. The event, co-sponsored by the American Bar Association’s Section of…
Small Businesses Prepare for Disasters
The unfolding tragic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is expected to affect—and is already affecting—thousands of small business owners, from fishermen to hotel and hospitality providers in states along the Gulf Coast. Sadly, it’s also a…
2010 National Small Business Leaders: Lifting America’s Spirits and the Economy
It was great to have an opportunity to participate in the 2010 National Small Business Week events here in Washington, DC, this week. My role was to coordinate on-site interviews with the event’s videographer, so I was lucky enough to get a…