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…
Regulatory Update- Labor and State Departments Release Final Rules
Both the Department of Labor and Department of State have recently released rules which may have an impact on small business.
The first from the Department of Labor requires federal contractors to post notices on federal labor laws. The…
Join Us at National Small Business Week Forums on Innovation, Exporting, and Social Media, May 23-25
For more than 45 years, the annual celebration of our dynamic small business sector, National Small Business Week, has given our nation a great opportunity to celebrate the powerful energy, passion, and strength of America’s entrepreneurial…
First Attempts at Measuring the “Green” Economy
When I look up at the night sky, I marvel that the starlight I’m seeing is actually thousands, millions, or even billions of years old. Similarly (in a small way), the news we get down here on Earth usually reflects what happened in the…
USASBE Taps Advocacy’s Economic Research
Office of Advocacy Chief Economist Chad Moutray was one of the speakers over the weekend at the annual United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (USASBE) conference in Nashville, Tennessee. His remarks focused on the…
Advocacy Economists Participate in AEA Meetings
Two Advocacy economists, Dr. Jules Lichtenstein and Dr. Ying Lowrey, presented papers at the 2010 Annual Meeting of the American Economic Association (AEA). This year’s meeting took place January 3-5 in Atlanta. It was held in conjunction…
2009 Small Business Profiles for the States and Territories
The Office of Advocacy’s Small Business Profiles are an annual analysis of each state’s small business activities. Each profile gathers the latest information from key federal data-gathering agencies to provide a snapshot of small business…