"A study conducted several years ago, before the law was enacted, found that getting a library card in all 50 states requires more information than creating a company," Gary said. "Similarly, a survey by the Small Business Majority in early 2024 found that most members reported the filing process was straightforward, often taking just 10 to 20 minutes."
Small Business News
01/15/2025 |
Law360
Entrepreneurs group Small Business Majority wants the Fifth and Eleventh circuits to let it intervene to defend the FTC's currently blocked noncompetes ban if FTC Republicans stop arguing for the rule as expected once they take power.
01/15/2025 |
The Small Business Report
Small Business Majority Founder & CEO John Arensmeyer joins host Carl Brown for a conversation about what small businesses can expect this year. Inflation, supply chains, access to capital and the workforce were already challenging for small businesses, and they’re now also concerned about tariffs, tax code changes, mass deportations and health care subsidies.
01/14/2025 |
Denver Patch
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.
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.
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.
01/03/2025 |
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.”
