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More With Less

Feb 14th, 2011 | By Dawn Rivers Baker | Category: Policy Matters

Most of us don’t really need loans.

We need training and technical assistance.

While you’re at it, we could use a little regulatory relief.

Oh … and tax simplification would be nice, too.

In short, we need a bunch of things that are difficult to accomplish politically because they are not particularly urgent — unless you are a small business owner — and they are not particularly sexy, so they don’t make for riveting headlines.

Small business regulations could never hold a candle to a Congressman’s flexed biceps.

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Baby Steps

Feb 2nd, 2009 | By Dawn Rivers Baker | Category: Policy Matters

Then again, maybe this time will be different.

Maybe some of the language of the conversation is changing. Maybe more people will spend more time during hearings and roundtables talking specifically and directly about microbusinesses, rather than making oblique references to “very small firms.”

Then again, maybe I’m a cock-eyed optimist.

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Women-Owned Businesses: 20 Years of Shifting Sands

Sep 15th, 2008 | By Dawn Rivers Baker | Category: Politics & Policy

The Senate Small Business Committee also held a roundtable last week to examine the challenges and opportunities facing women buisness owners 20 years after the federal government formalized its support for them with the Women’s Business Ownership Act, signed in 1988. Women owned businesses have come pretty far in the last 20 years but they [...]

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