SBA Issues Final 8(a) Rules
March 1, 2011The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) recently published a package of final rules updating and revising its 8(a) Business Development program. The new rules represent the first comprehensive overhaul of the program since June 1998. They become effective March 14, 2011. The rules are aimed at ensuring that the benefits...
READ MOREBudget: SBA
February 16, 2011The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) fared fairly well in President Barack Obama’s 2012 Budget Proposal. SBA The administration proposed allocating $985 million to the SBA in Fiscal Year (FY) 2012. In FY 2011, the agency received $993 million in core budget funding. The 2012 budget proposal still represents a...
READ MOREAdvocacy Releases 2009 Small Biz Economy Report
February 1, 2011Late last week, the U.S. Small Business Administration Office of Advocacy (Advocacy) released their annual report, The Small Business Economy: A Report to the President, which reviewed the 2009 economic environment for small businesses. According to the report—and in-line with NSBA’s own economic reports, small businesses faced challenging economic conditions throughout...
READ MORESmall-Biz Panels Step Up SBA Oversight
February 1, 2011The leaders of the U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship and the U.S. House Committee on Small Business recently have communicated their intention to conduct extensive oversight of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) during the upcoming Congress. They have expressed a desire to identify duplicative or ineffective...
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