Increase equitable access to capital and opportunities for entrepreneurs
- Incentivize lenders to provide more small dollar loans that support micro and early-stage entrepreneurship with a focus on under-resourced communities.
- Expand access to transparent and responsible capital by requiring clear and upfront disclosures on small business loan products.
- Modernize federal resources and streamline regulations to ensure that tools and technical assistance, including procurement opportunities, are geared towards helping the millions of our smallest businesses succeed in today’s economy.
Bolster a Main Street-friendly workforce and the creation of quality jobs
- Expand access to affordable quality healthcare by bolstering the benefits of the Affordable Care Act, and extending the ACA premium subsidies needed to ensure greater marketplace enrollment by America’s small business owners, employees and self-employed entrepreneurs who constitute most of the ACA market participants.
- Require more transparency and competition in healthcare markets by holding hospitals and other large medical entities accountable to their anti-competitive practices, which impact the quality and cost of healthcare services for small business owners and their employees.
- Provide support for small business owners seeking to offer long-term benefits for their employees particularly childcare, reproductive healthcare, paid family and medical leave and retirement.
- Enact commonsense immigration reforms and oppose mass deportations of immigrants to bolster an essential small business workforce.
Foster a level playing field for American small businesses
- Implement bottom-up business tax policies that prioritize the needs of true Main Street enterprises, not large corporations or the wealthy.
- Enforce antitrust and competition laws to give small business owners a chance to compete in today’s increasingly consolidated economy.
- Oppose radical tariff increases to ensure that small businesses’ supply costs enable them to compete in a global marketplace.
