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On June 4, 2020, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the U.S. Department of Commerce’s International Trade Administration (ITA) and U.S. & Foreign Commercial Service (USFCS) are temporarily reducing or eliminating the…

On June 5, Advocacy submitted comments to EPA on the Science Advisory Board Peer Review of EPA’s Draft Guidelines for the Preparing Economic Analyses. Advocacy requests that the panel pay special attention to recommendations in the…

On March 2, 2020, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a public comment period for the proposed 2020 National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) general permit for stormwater discharges associated with industrial…

Since a declaration of emergency for COVID-19 was issued on March 13, 2020, total private employment dropped by over 15 percent. Small businesses employers bore the brunt of the job loss, with a decline of more than 17 percent. Read “Small…

The Office of Advocacy has released the latest edition of its newsletter, “The Small Business Advocate,” Vol. 39, No. 5. If you would like to subscribe to our newsletter, you may do so here.

By Brian Headd, Economist Advocacy published a blog six months ago on an important new data gathering effort, Advocacy And Census Focus On The Smallest Small Businesses With A New Nonemployer Demographic Data Project. The blog reported…

By Brian Headd, Economist The Kauffman Foundation is a Kansas City-based organization whose work supports entrepreneurship, education and inclusion, in general. Like the Office of Advocacy, the foundation conducts research,…

The Office of Advocacy’s efforts at monitoring federal agency compliance with the Regulatory Flexibility Act (RFA) resulted in changes to 10 specific rules that reduced the regulatory burden for small business. These changes led to $773…