[Podcast] New Capital Access Effort Passes Committee

So, yeah, it’s Small Business Week.
Are you excited?
Last week, President Obama signed the relevant proclamation, which proclaimed, in part:
In this year’s State of the Union address, I proposed creating a $30 billion lending fund to help increase the flow of credit to small businesses, and I call on the Congress to pass this legislation [...]

[Podcast] Survey Shows Recession Hit Freelancers Hard

One of the things the Freelancer’s Union pointed out in their introductory notes about their survey was that “independent workers” as the GAO styled them — independent contractors, consultants, part-time workers, temporary workers, self-employed entrepreneurs — comprise 30% of the workforce.
That’s a fairly large chunk of the labor market. All things considered, you wouldn’t think [...]

[Podcast] Panel Gets Tough With SBA Oversight

Where small business issues are concerned, it seems as if it has taken the second session of the 111th Congress longer than usually to get into gear.
Of course, that might have had something to do with all that snow that got dumped onto the nation’s capital earlier this year. As a resident of the Catskill [...]

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