Back On The Bike
Jan 17th, 2011 | By Dawn R. Rivers | Category: Policy MattersEven though The MicroEnterprise Journal has been on hiatus, I have still been watching and listening. I have not been seeing much to inspire me with confidence in the notion that our nation’s policymakers are any closer to understanding the vast potential economic resource that is the American microbusiness.
I might have been tempted to apologize to you for taking this long break, except that you haven’t really been missing much.
Microbusinesses are still being largely ignored in the policy arena. In fact, if anything, they are being even more thoroughly ignored now than they were before the entire economic house of cards collapsed in September 2008.
Microbusinesses are being so steadfastly ignored that I actually spent a few minutes, about a month ago, considering the possibility of simply shutting down this publication for good.
But then I realized something.