It’s worth celebrating the fact that entrepreneurs – even those that couldn’t previously afford to offer paid family and medical leave – can give their employees access to benefits that often only exist for workers at larger corporations. And employees of small businesses no longer have to choose between a paycheck or taking care of themselves or their families. Over the next year, we hope to see increased enrollment in FAMLI so that more small businesses and their employees can enjoy its benefits.
Small Business News
01/13/2025 |
Politico
Advocacy group Small Business Majority plans to file a motion to intervene Monday in the 5th Circuit case in order to take over the appeal if the Trump administration backs out, a representative told POLITICO. The organization is also looking to do the same in the 11th Circuit, which is taking a look at the Florida decision against the FTC’s rule.
01/08/2025 |
Nonprofit Quarterly
According to the nonprofit Small Business Majority, around 41 percent of California’s small businesses, especially those owned by entrepreneurs of color and women, struggle to access the capital they need for growth.
01/08/2025 |
CalMatters
As for small businesses, the state’s low taxable wage has a disproportionate impact on them. Bianca Blomquist, California policy director for Small Business Majority, a nonprofit advocacy group, urged equitable reform and said the need to fix the funding system for unemployment benefits is so urgent that other business groups’ “no-new-tax argument won’t keep flying.” She said a well-funded system “enables workers to get back into the economy,” which can have direct and indirect effects on small businesses.
01/07/2025 |
Inc.
If LaJuanna Russell had to guess, she’s missed out on hundreds, if not thousands, of federal contracts throughout her career as a small federal contractor…In recent years, Russell says the work she pursues gets lumped in with other tasks, which then get lumped in again with other assignments, until the job snowballs into something that can’t be taken on by a small business such as BMA.
01/03/2025 |
Inc.
And yet, “a lot of business owners around the country aren’t aware of these changes” to employment law, says Alexis D’Amato, director of government affairs for the advocacy organization Small Business Majority. This means they’re also unaware of how these legal changes will impact their businesses. And even for the most knowledgeable founders, she says, “it really will take a village to comply with all these changes coming down the pipeline in 2025.”
01/03/2025 |
Inc.
After net neutrality rules were suspended in 2017, a survey of 500 small business owners by Chesapeake Beach Consulting for Small Business Majority, a D.C.-based small business advocacy group, found that a majority of small businesses—56 percent—opposed the repeal of net neutrality.
01/02/2025 |
The Intercept
John Arensmeyer, the head of Small Business Majority, a nonprofit group focused on under-resourced entrepreneurs, said the owners he has been talking to are “extremely concerned” about tariffs. “They already have been struggling with inflation,” he said. “The last thing they need is to have costs skyrocket even more due to tariffs.”
01/01/2025 |
KevinMD.com
As a licensed practitioner of family medicine who is also the majority owner of a small medical practice, I feel a responsibility to provide top-quality care for my patients as well as comprehensive health insurance coverage for my employees. The problem is, the high cost of health insurance and some of the solutions intended to lower insurance costs have made it increasingly difficult to do both.
12/31/2024 |
Investopedia
Groups such as Small Business Majority, Main Street Alliance, and Business for a Fair Minimum Wage support a higher wage, believing that it will inspire employee loyalty and boost workplace morale.