On March 11 2010, Advocacy filed comments with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service regarding its proposal to revise its critical habitat designation for Bull Trout.
March 11, 2010
Fact Sheet
On March 5, 2010, Advocacy sent a letter to Federal Communications Commission asking that the agency, as part of its developing the National Broadband Plan, look into the possibility of redefining/revising, in conjunction with the U.S. Small Business Administration, the telecommunication services size standards to better reflect current market conditions.
March 5, 2010
Fact Sheet
The March 2010 edition of The Small Business Advocate features the new Advocacy report, “An Analysis of Small Business and Jobs.” It also reports on a comment letter to the Transportation Security Administration (TSA).
March 2010 Advocate
Over a recent 15-year period, small businesses created some 65 percent of the net new jobs in the private sector, according to conservative estimates cited in a new report, An Analysis of Small Business and Jobs, from Advocacy.
Full Report
Research Summary
Press Release
The U.S. economy rebounded in the fourth quarter of 2009, with real GDP growing by an annualized 5.7 percent. Overall economic trends for small business owners can be found in the latest version of the Quarterly Indicators.
Quarterly Indicators
Small businesses realized $7 billion in first-year cost savings and $745 million in annually recurring savings as a result of fiscal year (FY) 2009 efforts to help agencies comply with the Regulatory Flexibility Act (RFA). The figures are reported in the FY 2009 edition of Advocacy’s annual Report on the Regulatory Flexibility Act.
Annual Report [html] or [PDF File]
Research Summary
The study, Income and Wealth: How Did Households Owning Small Businesses Fare from 1998 to 2007?, updates previous reports prepared for Advocacy on the income and wealth of U.S. households that owned (or did not own) small businesses over various economic periods.
Full Report
Research Summary
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