President Bush’s fiscal 2009 budget proposal for the Small Business Administration asks for Congress to fund the agency at $657 million, a 15 percent increase over the 2008 request, but as the head of the agency noted in a Monday conference call, the devil is in the details.
SBA chief Steven Preston, a former chief financial [...]
February 6, 2008
Senate Oversight Committee Criticizes SBA FY09 Budget – Post No. 020608-2
February 6, 2008
Fed Data Shows Small Businesses Facing Credit Crunch – Post No. 020608-1
Kerry to Introduce Bill to Help Small Businesses Access Capital
On the heels of news this week that about one third of the U.S. banks surveyed by the Federal Reserve have recently tightened their lending standards for loans to small businesses, Senator John Kerry (D-Mass.), Chairman of the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, announced he [...]
