2012 Accomplishments, 2013 Horizons
As 2012 winds down, the Office of Advocacy continues to build up an impressive number of achievements working with federal agencies and small business owners to bring transparency to the regulatory process. The synergy between our research…
Region III Innovation Events Span Startup, Mentoring, Market-Entry
All across Region III, diverse institutions are promoting innovation and entrepreneurship in novel and energetic ways. These are exciting developments because they are expanding discourse and making room for disparate groups to deliberately…
Financial Viability and Retirement Assets: A Look at Small Business Owners and Private Sector…
Jules Lichtenstein, Ph.D., December 2012
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Income security during retirement may depend on whether you were a business owner or a wage and salary worker. The accumulation of!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->…
Retirement, Recessions and Older Small Business Owners
How well are older small business owners prepared for retirement? How well do they fare during recessions compared to employees in the same age group?
Small Business Lending in the United States 2012
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Go Ahead, Take That Risk!
Tomorrow, Kansas City will be humming with the innovation vibe. Two energetic Kansas City–area entrepreneurs, Jabbar Wesley and Eze Redwood—will be launching the city’s first NovelDay at the headquarters of Burns & McDonnell, the…
Shop Small on Saturday, November 24
Editor's note: This post was originally published on the Small Business Administration website.
In between the Black Friday sales and the Cyber Monday deals is Small Business Saturday (November 24th) – a day set aside to support the small…
Panel Examines Regulatory Developments and Women-Owned Businesses
On November 7, the greater D.C. chapter of the National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO) and Women Impacting Public Policy (WIPP) presented a panel on trends in finance, policy, and regulatory requirements that affect women…
Advocacy Participates in ABA Expert Session on SBREFA Panels
Two of Advocacy’s attorneys, Assistant Chief Counsels Bruce Lundegren and Kevin Bromberg, were key members of a panel at the American Bar Association’s Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice Section conference in Washington, D.C., on…
Office of Advocacy Has a Strong Showing at Administrative Law Conference
"I'll let you write the substance...you let me write the procedure, and I'll screw you every time."
—Representative John Dingell
(Hearing on H.R. 2327, Regulatory Reform Act, before the Subcomm. on Admin. Law and Governmental Regulations…