Rural Affairs

By Joe Knilans, National Rural Affairs Advocate According to the Office of Advocacy’s 2020 Small Business State Profiles, Wisconsin is home to over 456,000 small businesses, employing 1.3 million Wisconsinites. On July 31, SBA…

Rural areas lag urban areas in gaining high-speed internet access.  A new report from the Office of Advocacy, “Accessing the Internet in Rural America,” analyzes recent survey data on subscriptions to the internet through three popular…

By Apollo Fuhriman, Region 10 Advocate In April, I met with county council members from Union and Wallowa Counties in Northeast Oregon. These elected officials described several significant long-term issues arising from federally owned…

By Joe Knilans, Rural Affairs Advocate The Other Kentucky Distilleries Recently, I visited Kentucky to conduct business forums throughout the state. One of the small businesses that I visited was the Casey Jones Distillery in…

By Joe Knilans, Rural Affairs Advocate Advocacy visited a small packaging company in Platteville, Wisconsin to hear how federal regulations have an impact on small businesses in Wisconsin.  L & M Corrugated Container is a small,…