small business administration

WASHINGTON (Press Release – January 17, 2012) – The U.S. Small Business Administration’s national network of Small Business Development Centers (SBDCs) plays an essential role in the economic development of their states and local communities through their direct, face-to-face counseling for small businesses, according to a report released today by the SBA.

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The Office of Advocacy (Advocacy) of the U.S. Small Business Administration submits this request for a review of current acquisition policies and practices regarding the acquisition tool of reverse auctions and the impact of such policies and practices on small businesses.

January 21, 2012

Lesley Field

Acting Administrator

Rochester, NY (Press Release – December 12, 2011) – Paychex was founded in 1971 as a small business with a great idea and a commitment to make it work.

Fast forward 40 years and Paychex has grown to become a nationally recognized leader in providing payroll, human resource, and employee benefits solutions to small- and medium-sized businesses.

WASHINGTON (Press Release – Nov. 23, 2011) – PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — SCORE — http://www.score.org — and its invaluable network of 13,000 volunteers helped small business clients to start 58,637 new businesses and create 71,449 new jobs within the struggling American economy last year.

Bethesda, MD (Press Release – October 25, 2011) – New surveys show small business, the engine of the economy, continues to be the nation’s best job creator.

But many small businesses can’t take advantage of growth opportunities because they can’t get traditional bank loans.

Washington, D.C. (Press Release – October 13, 2011) – The Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council (SBE Council) praised House passage of three long-standing trade deals that President Barack Obama recently sent to Congress.

The trade agreements with Colombia, Panama and South Korea are a welcome development for the struggling economy and present new opportunities for small businesses, according to SBE Council.

WASHINGTON (Press Release – October 5, 2011) – Spurred in part by unprecedented loan volume in the year’s first quarter, small business loans backed by the U.S.

Small Business Administration in FY2011 reached the highest mark in the agency’s history, supporting over $30 billion, continuing the rebound begun in 2009 and returning to healthy pre-recession levels in the final three quarters of the year.

Washington, D.C. (Press Release – September 26, 2011) – Chief Counsel for Advocacy Winslow Sargeant applauded the Department of Labor’s (DOL) recent decision to postpone the final rule on wage methodology for the H-2B Visa Program for 60 days.

The rule’s effective date is now November 30th.  Advocacy has consistently worked with small business on the H-2B rule and has written four public regulatory comment letters to DOL citing the negative impact the wage increase will have on small businesses.

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Winslow Sargeant, Ph.D., Chief Counsel for Advocacy, U.S.

Small Business Administration, testified before the U.S.

Washington (PRESS RELEASE – June 30, 2011) – The federal government awarded nearly $100 billion in federal contracts to small businesses in Fiscal Year (FY) 2010, showing an increase in federal prime contract dollars to small businesses for the second straight year after four years of decline.