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Iowa’s small businesses have the first opportunity vote against Bidenomics in 2024, small business owner Erik Lee and Job Creators Network President Alfredo Ortiz write in an op-ed.

A “street takeover” in Compton, California, led to a mom-and-pop bakery getting ransacked and robbed by a wild group of thugs, not even two days into 2024.

Small business optimism edged up in May even as inflation worries returned as the top worry for owners.

Earl Wright and Alfredo Ortiz write for foxbusiness.com warning against overzealous regulation of community banks in the wake of the Silicon Valley Bank failure because they offer the majority of small business loans and an even greater proportion of farm loans.

On Friday’s “Hugh Hewitt Show,” Sen.-designate Pete Ricketts (R-NE) stated that small businesses are the key to job creation and need to be supported and argued that “big companies like regulation,” because their size allows them to handle the costs

Small business owners expect sales conditions and the overall economy to deteriorate in the coming year.

A woman in South Carolina is helping young people with special needs hone their life skills through baking.

Marcy Landolfo, who owns the Rains PDX store in Democrat-run Portland, Oregon, is fed up after experiencing break-in number 15.

Over one-third (37 percent) of small businesses could not pay their rent in full or on time in October.

The Oil & Gas Workers Association (OGWA) and the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) endorsed Arizona Republican Blake Masters in his bid for U.S. Senate.

The cost of a pint of beer must rise to up to £20 (~$23) if British pubs are to stay in business this winter, an industry bigwig warns.

At least one kindergarten in the UK has told children to wear more clothes to keep warm, as the business itself cannot afford to keep the heating on constantly.

The latest iteration of the Senate Democrats’ reconciliation bill, known as the “Inflation Reduction Act,” would raise taxes on thousands of small and mid-sized businesses across the country, according to Americans for Tax Reform (ATR).

Google has reportedly begun informing some small business owners that they will soon have to pay to continue to use their email and other apps after a decade of free use. One small business owner says, “They’re basically strong-arming us to switch to something paid after they got us hooked on this free service.”

“I think [Vladimir Putin] is the cover story,” said veteran entrepreneur Colin Wayne of inflation, adding, “We’re doing this to ourselves.”

The incoming government of South Korean President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol said Thursday it plans to compensate 5.51 million small business owners for losses suffered as a direct result of the previous administration’s punishing business hour curfews, imposed regularly for two years as part of Seoul’s anti-Chinese coronavirus regulations.

A recent report claims that Amazon’s delivery service partners are going into debt and face seemingly instant termination of their contract if they fail to follow every guideline handed down from the Masters of the Universe. One small business owner who had his contract canceled said: “I am a pimple on the butt of an elephant when it comes to Amazon.”

A small business owner in Pennsylvania spoke to reporters about the struggles of operations like his under the Biden presidency.

On Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” DCCC Chair Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D-NY) said that during the State of Union President Joe Biden should talk about how Democrats, with the rescue plan “saved” every small business in the country

Citing zoning laws designed to “preserve blue-collar jobs in a market in which housing and office space have typically generated higher revenues,” a media report said Amazon is expanding its hold on real estate in California’s Bay Area.

The share of small businesses raising prices hit the highest level since 1981.

Several small business owners in the South Korean national capital of Seoul left their shop lights on all night on Thursday to protest a state-mandated coronavirus curfew ordering small businesses nationwide, such as cafes and restaurants, to close by 9:00 p.m. each night, South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency reported Friday.

Seventy-five percent of small businesses are being pounded by the supply chain crisis and thirty-year high inflation, a CNBC survey revealed Tuesday.

Among independents who own small businesses, support for Biden fell from 51 percent in the third quarter to just 33 percent now. 

Registered Republican voters in Florida now outnumber registered Democrat voters in the state for the first time in several decades.

Citizens are preparing for Thanksgiving and noticing higher prices or limited stock, even when it comes to turkey. 

On Tuesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Labor Secretary Marty Walsh stated that in order for small businesses to get their employees back to work, “the biggest thing is going to be COVID-19, quite honestly, making sure that we’re getting

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) vetoed a bill passed by the Republican-controlled state legislature this month that would have prohibited the state from fining a business the first time it violated coronavirus orders.

Forty-five percent of small businesses throughout the nation are facing President Biden’s supply chain crisis, ABC News reported Monday on the U.S. Census Small Business Pulse Survey.

Social media giant Facebook has announced a plan to purchase $100 million worth of unpaid invoices from small businesses owned by women and minorities to support them. Mark Zuckerberg’s company is expected to support the cash flow of 30,000 small businesses owned by women and minorities through this commitment.

FRANKLIN, Tennessee — One of Tennessee’s top restaurant representatives and the owner of a historic restaurant chain says his business is already built back better thanks to the state’s “forward-thinking politicians.”

Venmo and PayPal are implementing transaction fee changes at the end of the month which will have an impact on small businesses that decide to continue using the popular online payment methods.

MIAMI, Florida — A local third-generation Cuban-American restaurant chain is integrating robots in with its waitstaff as an answer to the workforce depletion it has seen in the aftermath of the coronavirus pandemic.

Alfredo Ortiz of Job Creators Network writes in RealClear Politics that President Biden’s policies on energy, government spending, and labor are creating an inflationary economy that acts as a tax on the poor and the middle class.

A U.S. district court granted a Texas restaurant a temporary restraining order (TRO) against President Joe Biden’s Small Business Administration (SBA) so the restaurant could overcome the SBA’s race- and sex-based method of distributing federal relief funds.

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) declared “Small Business Week” after her response to the coronavirus crushed it.