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…
Rhode Island Law Lightens Burden of Regulations
On November 9, Rhode Island Governor Carcieri signed into law Senate Bill 290, which aims to help reduce the burden of unfair regulations on small businesses. The bill, sponsored by Senator Leo R. Blais, establishes a chapter in Rhode…
Citation Study Opens Door to a Wealth of Small Business Research
Interested in the relationship between gender and the finances accessed by entrepreneurial firms, or venture capital and the commercialization of technology? How about business angels, minority entrepreneurship, rural innovators,…
Are Small Business Employees Trained For Their Jobs?
On Feb. 27th I presented a paper titled “Small Business Training and Development: Analysis of Recipients, Types, Location and Incidence Levels Using SIPP Data” at the 35th Annual Eastern Economic Association Conference at the Sheraton…
Advocacy Roundtable Covers Lots of Ground
Yesterday Advocacy hosted a roundtable on important tax issues. Officials from the Internal Revenue Service made presentations on several topics, followed by Q&A from small business representatives. The topics discussed included the…
Educational Decisions Correlate With Self-Employment
Advocacy’s Chief Economist, Dr. Chad Moutray, just released a working paper that shows college graduates who specialize in social science tend toward self-employment as compared to those with bachelor’s degrees in other…