A recent poll conducted by Small Business Majority revealed that small business owners support legislation that would remove barriers to finding quality candidates. “Reducing barriers to occupational licensing for justice-impacted individuals is an important step to addressing Colorado’s workforce shortage challenges and empowering innovators to take the entrepreneurial plunge,” said Lindsey Vigoda, Colorado Director for Small Business Majority.
Small Business News
03/22/2024 |
Washington Business Journal
An organization of small businesses across the country, the Main Street Alliance, highlighted the challenges that those employers have due to a lack of child care: their brief cited Small Business Majority's poll findings that "half of all small business owners name child care access and cost a top issue."
03/21/2024 |
Forbes
This reflects growing popular support, like the 85% of New Mexicans who said they’d support such a program, and recognition that social infrastructure is just economic policy.
03/21/2024 |
Senator Amy Klobuchar
The American Innovation and Choice Online Act has been endorsed by Small Business Majority, Center for American Progress and Consumer Reports.
03/21/2024 |
Patch Atlanta
With a week left in the legislative session, Georgia legislators have the opportunity to strengthen our workforce and economy by passing Senate Bill 157. This legislation would expand entrepreneurship and employment opportunities by opening access to occupational licensing for justice-impacted individuals.
03/18/2024 |
Inside Sources
We all know that healthcare is expensive and often out of reach for too many people. However, healthcare costs can mean the difference between success and failure for small businesses by affecting their bottom lines and hindering their ability to hire employees.
03/18/2024 |
Representative Ro Khanna
“The ‘National Worker Cooperative Development and Support Act’ will help sustain this growth by removing barriers to worker-owned business cooperatives, including access to capital, education and resources,” said John Arensmeyer, Founder & CEO, Small Business Majority
03/11/2024 |
21 Hats Podcast
This week, the founder and CEO of Small Business Majority talks about whether he heard what he wanted to hear in Joe Biden’s State of the Union address, what he makes of recent court rulings asserting that the Minority Business Development Agency must support owners of all races, and what he makes of the growing demand from businesses for more immigration.
03/08/2024 |
WABE
Rachel Shanklin, Georgia director of Small Business Majority’s outreach, says one bill that the group is pushing for is Senate Bill 157, which would help people reentering society to start their own businesses.
03/06/2024 |
Associated Press
Cheyenne Smith, in Salt Lake City, Utah, founder of Dakota Ridge, an e-commerce company selling children’s shoes, relies on Meta’s platforms, primarily Instagram, to grow her customer base, via a mix of unpaid Instagram posts and paid ads.