Child care is an absolute necessity for working parents and a key player in Colorado’s small business landscape. I urge Colorado policymakers to extend the tax credits that make child care accessible and affordable for small business owners like myself.
Small Business News
05/12/2026 |
FFX Now
At the bill signing, Jackson Child Care owner Monica Jackson said the program helps level the playing field for small businesses like hers by supporting worker recruitment and retention. “As a business owner and childhood provider, I see every day how closely families and the workforce are connected,” she said. “As a small employer, I face challenges that large companies often don’t. I’m unable to offer paid family leave because of the size of my business.
05/11/2026 |
WTOP News (DC)
Speaking at the signing, Monica Jackson, who owns a childcare center in Springfield, said the program will help small businesses compete and better support working families. “Enabling programs like mine to remain open, to operate sustainably and to continue serving the families who rely on us for their financial stability,” Jackson said.
05/11/2026 |
WUSA 9 (DC)
The national business organization Small Business Majority reports 70% of small business owners nationwide support establishing a state-run paid family and medical leave programs.
05/07/2026 |
CNN
Shirley Modlin started her manufacturing business 20 years ago in her garage with her husband. Now, she fears the company won’t survive. Modlin’s tiny company based in Powhatan, Virginia, faces major delays on components and price hikes of up to 400% that she blames on tariffs. She is struggling to pass those costs on to clients and has fallen 90 days behind on payments to vendors. “Everything is delayed or high-priced. The customer is screaming. It’s killing us,” Modlin, owner of 3D Design and Manufacturing, told CNN in a phone interview.
05/05/2026 |
Raleigh North Carolina Patch
With the 2026 North Carolina legislative session getting underway, I encourage lawmakers to enact a small business friendly agenda to ensure that small business ownership and entrepreneurship are at the center of a robust, equitable and competitive state economy. Laws that empower entrepreneurs, remove barriers and strengthen the small business ecosystem are the only way to ensure small businesses – as well as the jobs they create – can continue to grow in North Carolina.
05/04/2026 |
Los Angeles Business Journal
As one of the key figures in Los Angeles’ chapter of the Small Business Majority, Brian Pifer researches, educates and advocates for the area’s entrepreneurial community…”I would hope that the government would reverse course on some of these policies that really are harmful and detrimental to small businesses, and in doing so, that might increase desire and demand for SBA lending for growth and expansion,” Brian said.
05/04/2026 |
Los Angeles Business Journal
After years of working as a hairdresser in New York, getting an employment-based green card was Sayuri Tsuchitani’s first huge leap toward the life she wanted in the U.S. Getting a $100,000 loan from the Small Business Administration as a newly minted permanent resident was her second. The Japanese-born Angeleno had always harbored entrepreneurial ambitions. As a newcomer to the U.S. in the late 1990s, she put herself through beauty school and styled her way up to leading salons.
04/30/2026 |
Pittsburgh Business Times
A February survey by the Small Business Majority found that 60% of small businesses saw higher costs due to tariffs, and 50% ended up raising their prices because of it, up from 31% in a survey in August.
04/28/2026 |
U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship
"The U.S. Small Business Administration's decision to prohibit legal permanent residents, including green card holders, from accessing SBA-backed loans has the potential for disastrous consequences that could reverberate throughout the U.S. economy for years to come. After all, immigrants own a high percentage of Main Street businesses such as grocery stores, restaurants, dry cleaners and other types of small shops typically found in towns throughout the United States.