Small Business News

| Senator Tammy Baldwin

The Carried Interest Fairness Act of 2024 is supported by AFL-CIO, Public Citizen and Small Business Majority.

| Denver Business Journal

The Small Business Majority's Colorado division has tapped Hunter Nelson as its new statewide director, the organization shared exclusively with the Denver Business Journal.

| First Five Years Fund

A new report from Small Business Majority – a national small business organization with a network of 85,000 small businesses – has found that more than two-thirds of small business owners polled support legislative action to make child care more affordable and accessible for working parents and employers.

| The Business Journals

John Arensmeyer, Founder & CEO of Small Business Majority, said 4 out of 10 small-business owners say they have lost out on business opportunities because of challenges with child care. “Our research shows that child care is essential to the small business ecosystem and is a key factor in entrepreneurial growth,” Arensmeyer said.

| Small Business Development Corporation of Orange County

He noted the collaboration with Small Business Majority and other entities in reaching small businesses with information about ways to solve their funding challenges through guarantees.

| U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship

Yesterday, the Small Business Majority, a national small business advocacy group, released the results of a survey of small business owners across the nation, where almost 60% report a lack of access to child care as an impediment to their business growth.

| U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship

U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Chair of the U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, today highlighted a new Small Business Majority report that shows more than two-thirds of small business owners support legislative action to address the child care affordability and accessibility crisis.

| Inc.com

Fifty-nine percent of small business owners affirm that barriers to child care access are preventing them from growing their business, with about a quarter of founders noting that they've had to shutter their company entirely, and return to the broader workforce that offers more flexibility, because of child care problems. That's according to a new research report from Small Business Majority, a small business advocacy group in Washington D.C.

| The Buffalo News

Smaller employers support and are looking for more policy solutions to improve access to affordable child care and to keep our nation from falling off the child care funding cliff. Forthcoming research from Small Business Majority found that a strong majority of small business owners believe that policymakers need to take action to address the cost of childcare.

| The Business Journals

Brian Pifer, vice president of research and insights at the Small Business Majority — which is working to ensure the money goes toward small businesses — said the program is harder for business owners to get a handle on because by the time it filters through state and local governments, it might not necessarily be called SSBCI funding or be recognized as part of the program.

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