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New Poll of Micro Businesses: Who They Are and What They Do for the Economy

Posted: October 11, 2012

Ben Geyerhahn

They’ve been in the spotlight for months, and the attention small businesses got during the first presidential debate sent them into the stratosphere in terms of media coverage. So let’s try to answer the question a lot of people are asking: who are these small business owners everyone’s talking about?

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Small Employers Who Offer Health Care: Check Your Mailboxes

Posted: August 3, 2012

John Arensmeyer

Here’s a riddle for you. What did the small business owner do when she opened the letter from her health insurer?

If it’s Lynn Petrazzuolo we’re talking about, she did the happy dance. Because in that envelope was a $1428 rebate check from her health insurance carrier, who was reimbursing Lynn because it had failed to spend her premium dollars the way the new federal healthcare law requires.

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Pushing High-Income Tax Cut Under Small Business Guise: Not Good Fiscal Policy

Posted: August 1, 2012

John Arensmeyer

As the year progresses, small business owners are becoming increasingly iconic in Washington. In the latest round of legislative battles over whether to eliminate tax breaks for high-income earners, the small business voice is unscrupulously being leveraged to push a partisan agenda — an agenda that assumes small business owners are high-income earners. But there’s a problem. For the most part, they’re not. And the real voices of small business owners are fighting to be heard.

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After Blocking Small Business Jobs Bill, Congress Must Do Something to Help Entrepreneurs

Posted: July 16, 2012

John Arensmeyer

Lawmakers passed up a golden opportunity recently to shake the recession’s effects and put American small businesses back on the hiring track. Congress has a lot more work to do this summer if they plan to support entrepreneurship. Small businesses across the nation are poised for growth, and now is the time to facilitate their expansion by passing smart jobs legislation and helping them access capital.

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President’s Small Business Initiatives Target Entrepreneurs’ Key Areas of Concern

Posted: July 12, 2012

Rhett Buttle

Original statement issued on July 11, 2012:

The president announced today that he will instate a host of executive actions to help small businesses. The actions address key areas of concern for small businesses, including the lack of available credit, which plagues countless entrepreneurs trying to grow their businesses and create jobs.

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Plurality of Small Business Owners Want Healthcare Law Upheld; Only One-Third Want it Overturned

Posted: June 15, 2012

John Arensmeyer

Originally released June 14, 2012:

A plurality (50 percent) of small business owners want the healthcare reform law upheld—either as is or with minor changes—while only one-third want the Supreme Court to overturn it, according to opinion polling released today by Small Business Majority. However, after learning more about the law, a clear majority (56 percent) want it kept intact with, at most, only minor changes.

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