It was almost a year ago that The MicroEnterprise Journal was covering the how the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act was taking shape even before Barack Obama had been sworn into office. And what I was saying at the time was that there was not much in it that would directly benefit microbusinesses. Fast forward [...]
Here’s an almost unheard-of concept: if a government program isn’t working, how about turning it off and returning the unused portion of its budget to the Department of the Treasury? It’s the kind of thing that might fall under the category of “careful stewardship of taxpayer dollars” and it almost never happens. But that is [...]
Late last month, the House Small Business Committee held yet another oversight hearing involving the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), this time focusing on the investments called for in the bill into nationwide broadband deployment. Broadband deployment is particularly important for microbusinesses, which tend to be heavily reliant on a variety of Internet-based technologies [...]
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