President Donald Trump declared that “America is on the verge of a golden age for small business” to a room full of entrepreneurs and legislators at the White House on Tuesday, using a 16-year low in unemployment, 2.6 percent GDP, and a record stock market high as evidence.
An op-ed by Alfredo Ortiz, President and CEO of the Job Creators Network, points out that “small business expansion is negligible” in the U.S., and “there has been a decades-long slowdown in new business creation.”
“The devil is in the details,” Bernie Sanders said. “We’ve got to see what these regulations are. It’s very easy to blame Barack Obama for everything, by the way. Some of those regulations may be state, may be local,” the Vermont senator said.
Donald Trump’s election as president has made many small business owners more upbeat about 2017.
The November Index of Small Business Optimism from the National Federation of Independent Business shows small businesses have gained confidence with the expectation of better conditions under the new Trump administration.
Breitbart Texas was in Livingston, Texas, approximately 74 miles north of Houston, when we spotted a Cajun seafood restaurant just loaded with Trump/Pence placards and some local county political race signs.
The ad comes after a recent poll found the majority of small business owners support Trump over his opponent Hillary Clinton.
A poll surveying small business owners found that they prefer Donald Trump over his opponent, Hillary Clinton.
The tech industry in Silicon Valley has disrupted the restaurant industry, thanks to high rent and higher minimum wages.
A Texas-based active-wear company with an obvious name is seeing record sales of its signature item after a spate of assaults on female joggers.
CLEVELAND, Ohio- Small businesses in the immediate area surrounding the Republican National Convention are bracing for possible violence and criticizing the local government and the RNC for leaving them essentially stranded in the convention’s designated “protest zone.”
Kevin L. Kearns, president of the U.S. Business & Industry Council, joined SiriusXM host Stephen K. Bannon on Friday’s Breitbart News Daily to discuss the effect of free-trade policies on America’s “Main Street companies.”
I know firsthand how detrimental patent trolls can be to small businesses, as my Connecticut small business, Capstone Photography, was recently the victim of abusive patent litigation in which bad patents were used as weapons of financial intimidation against my small business.
The Club for Growth PAC is charging that GOP frontrunner Donald Trump wants more federal control over businesses in the United States.
The federal government doesn’t have a reason to give businesses and disaster loans because the riots are isolated to a part of the city, and usually the loans are used for tornados and natural disasters, an expert tells Breitbart News.
Dr. Ben Carson, GOP presidential candidate who launched his campaign Monday, made his way down Main Street in Greenville, South Carolina, to the South Carolina Freedom Summit on Saturday, stopping to chat with voters.
There is something about the liberal mindset that brings the desire to be ruled, a hunger for Great Man and Great Woman fantasies that makes the Left perpetually vulnerable to cults of personality.
As former Hewlett-Packard CEO and California Senate candidate Carly Fiorina nears a decision to run for president in 2016, she blasted Hillary Clinton’s recent attack on CEO pay and the “selective outrage of the left.”
The Texas Senate has passed a package of bills that include substantial reforms to the state’s franchise tax, a tax on a business’ gross margins. Conservatives are cheering the news, and turning a hopeful eye toward the House, where the fate of these reforms now rests.
AUSTIN, Texas — State Senator Dr. Charles Schwertner (R-Georgetown) sent an open letter on Tuesday to a group of business associations, challenging their opposition to SB 8, the Small Business Tax Relief Act. The bill was filed by Schwertner filed in February. The letter acknowledges the contribution that big businesses make to the Texas economy, but accuses them of neglecting the state’s small businesses in favor of protecting the interests of powerful big businesses.
The Senate Health, Labor, Education and Pensions Committee will hear from two owners of small businesses, who will discuss a recent ruling by the NLRB’s general counsel that could potentially block entrepreneurs from opening their own businesses.
Small business owner Tawni Angel has won the first round of her court battle against a radical animal rights activist who is attempting to ban Angel’s popular pony rides from a weekly Santa Monica farmers’ market. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Lisa Hart-Cole ruled last Thursday that Angel’s lawsuit against activist Marcy Winograd can proceed, finding that Angel demonstrated a “sufficient probability of prevailing” on the question of whether Winograd had defamed her.
A Los Angeles woman is turning to a crowdfunding campaign to fund her dream of opening up the city’s first “dog cafe.”
