Small Business News

| Delaware Business Court Insider

Another national organization, Small Business Majority, submitted an amicus brief advocating for the Chancery decision to stand.

| Virginia Mercury

“This is leveling the playing field, giving small businesses an opportunity to compete with the huge corporations,” said Shirley Modlin, the owner of a small manufacturing company in Powhatan and a member of Small Business Majority’s Virginia Small Business Council.

| Associated Press

Founder and CEO Clifton Broumand usually gets a shipment of components about once a month, but the latest delivery, which departed Asia four weeks ago, is delayed. The normal route — three weeks via the Suez Canal — has been shut down by the Houthi attacks.

| Valdosta Daily Times

With only a few weeks left in our 40-day 2024 legislative session, Governor Kemp and the Georgia General Assembly still have a tremendous opportunity to use the current budget to ensure the small business community has access to essential health and tax benefits.

| Santa Fe New Mexican

Awesta Sarkash, public policy director for national advocacy group Small Business Majority’s work in New Mexico, said it could help small businesses with limited resources recruit and retain workers. “Small businesses’ … employees often leave to work at larger businesses, sometimes in other states, undercutting our small-business economy,” she said.

| KOAT 7

Some business owners support the bill like the owner of Cafe Castro in Santa Fe, Alma Castro. “We shouldn't be hesitant to change. I think that the legislators and the Small Business Majority have done a really good job doing the research and understanding that we will not be going out of business if this bill were to pass,” Castro said.

| KOB 4

Supporters noted in a recent poll with more than 300 small businesses, 85% said they want a program like this.

| Fact Coalition

Watch a full recording of yesterday’s Senate Budget Committee hearing on multinational offshore tax avoidance, featuring remarks from former Treasury official Kimberly Clausing, USW’s Roy Houseman, and Small Business Majority’s John Arensmeyer.

| Richmond Times-Dispatch

Between 2015 and 2019, the average increase in the annual cost of prescription drugs rose by 26.3% for Virginians. These costs can be particularly daunting for small business owners who cite health care costs as a key factor that could harm their businesses. Annually, we are forced to make hard decisions in order to continue offering coverage.

| KOB 4

“There was a recent poll done with small business owners that show that there’s overwhelming support, I want to say 85% support for this idea,” said Tracy McDaniel, policy advocate with the Southwest Women’s Law Center.

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