U.S. Office of Management and Budget

Small contractors will benefit from an Office of Management and Budget policy that directs federal agencies to contract work out whenever it can be perfor...  Read more

White House Opposes Contracting Bill

The Bush administration is opposing legislation aimed at boosting federal contracting goals for small businesses while preventing agencies from bundling s...  Read more

Is Uncle Sam's check still good if it's late?

Chart of the top five late-paying federal government agencies.  Read more

Federal Agencies Ordered to Buy from Small Businesses

A new Senate bill requires the government to consider smaller firms for purchases of all sizes, not just major contracts.  Read more

Federal Agencies Ordered to Buy from Small Businesses

A new Senate bill requires the government to consider smaller firms for purchases of all sizes, not just major contracts.  Read more

Women Lawmakers Want Contracting Plan Scrapped

A group of women Senators says a rule meant to boost federal contracting for women is too little, too late.  Read more

Putting Government Out Of Business

Private-sector procurement causes the least possible distortion of the economy, stimulates private investment, creates jobs, and generates tax revenue. It sh...  Read more

Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA)

A Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) is a designation the U.S. government uses to refer to a region that, broadly speaking, consists of a city and its su...  Read more

Lawmakers Seek SBA Budget Boost

After years of cuts, senate leaders are urging the White House to increase funding for federal small-business programs.  Read more

Democrats Charge Bush Short-Changing SBA, Others

Feb. 21, 2005 -- Democrats are making small business a point of contention in their battle against the Republican White House. In ...  Read more

Why I Avoid Government Contracts

The Davis-Bacon Act, a relic from the Depression, inflates costs on federal construction projects and discourages small builders from bidding on them.  Read more

Hotline

Current trends and legislation affecting small business.  Read more

Washington;

TO READ THE FINANCIAL PRESS, you'd think tax reform was the only issue of business interest on Capitol Hill this year. But, in fact, a number of other bi...  Read more

New Law Would Force Uncle Sam To Pay Up

The United States government is notoriously slow when it comes to paying its bills, and it's the thousands of small business suppliers that generally suff...  Read more

SBA Outlines Small-Business Goals

The Small Business Administration this week submitted an outline of its goals and objectives for the next seven years to Congress, including plans to impr...  Read more

Contract Killers;

DICK TOBIN STRUGGLED IN VAIN for years to win a defense contract for Tobitron Inc., of East Hampstead, N.H. He finally prevailed, using a small-business ...  Read more

Sad News for Google's Founders; Senior-Citizen Startups

Trading bingo for small business. Tired of reading about all these pimple-faced whippersnappers starting multi-million-dollar tech companies out of...  Read more

Competing With Uncle Sam

If small business can handle it, the job shouldn't be done by government.  Read more

Beyond Uncle Sam And His Gifts

SMALL BUSINESS COULD LOSE AN OPPORTUNITY TO HELP FASHION VITAL NATIONAL POLICY IF IT CONCENTRATES ON SAVING THE SBA.  Read more

Reagan To Report On Small Business

For President Reagan, January is the month to report -- on the State of the Union, on the economy, and this year, for the first time, on small business an...  Read more

Rural Businesses

Related Terms: Small Business Data from the last...  Read more

North American Industry Classification System (NAICS)

The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) is an industry coding system designed to facilitate the collection, analysis, and presentation o...  Read more

Indiana Shows The Way On Paperwork Cutbacks

By running the papershredders overtime and keeping an eye on generators of red tape, the Indiana state government has saved $1.9 million on printing bills...  Read more

Washington Report: The Eda Loan Sell-off

Small businesspeople often applaud when Reagan Administration officials talk about "privatizing" parts of the federal government, bureaucratese for return...  Read more

Blast-off For Industrial Policy

PRESIDENT REAGAN IS FORCED INTO MAKING INDUSTRIAL POLICY FOR COMPETING GROUPS OF SPACE ENTREPRENEURS.  Read more

Public Needs And Private Enterprise

You've heard of Japan Inc. Now meet Washington Inc. It's costing us billions of dollars a year, and hurting small business in the process.  Read more

Big Business Cries Foul

Small companies can patent government-funded inventions -- and the big guys don't like it.  Read more

The Storm Before the Calm

Might war with Iraq spur economic growth? And what will it mean for small companies?  Read more

Cleaning House

In his battle to close the SBA, President Reagan has turned on his own appointees, offended his business constituency, and welched on a deal with Congress. E...  Read more

A Failure To Communicate

Small business may have a special Presidential report, but until some more fundamental changes occur, it will never have much clout with the President.  Read more

Why Bureaucrats Avoid Small Business R & D

As a rule, the federal government doesn't like to do business with small companies, for reasons that are not hard to understand if you're the government e...  Read more

Election '84: Pursuing An Entrepreneurial Agenda

Are you better off now than you were four years ago? Don't smirk. The Trivial Pursuit phenomenon (see "Big Game," page 101) not withstanding, this must be...  Read more

The President's Message: An Historic Event

On March 1, in response to the Small Business Economic Policy Act of 1980, Ronald Reagan sent to Congress the first annual "State of Small Business" repor...  Read more

SBA Slams the Door on Borrowers

SBA to borrowers: Drop dead!  Read more

Will Reagan Turn Off The Sbic Spigot?

The President's men don't like government lending. That may mean the end of the SBIC program is near.  Read more

Will The Real Sba Please Stand Up?

Ronald Reagan thinks of the SBA as a welfare agency. Congress thinks of it as a pork barrel. Most entrepreneurs try not to think about it, period. Maybe we s...  Read more

The Spirit Of Independence; On The Frontiers

"In the long run men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high." -- Henry David Thoreau  Read more