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In the News
- New York Times: Savings for Small Business in Health Plan
6/11/09 - AFL-CIO Now Blog: Small Biz Group Says Health Care Reform Could Save Them $855 Billion
6/11/09 - Reuters: Small firms seen benefiting from health revamp
6/11/09 - Small Business Majority Analysis Projects $855 Billion in Savings for Small Business Over 10 Years Under Reformed Health System
6/11/09 - San Francisco Chronicle: Groups woo president with savings pledge; Health care reform
5/12/09 - Business Week: Health Reform Fit For Small Business
5/5/09 - Business Week: Health-Care Debate: Issues for Small Business
5/4/09 - Cleveland Plain Dealer: Ohio small businesses call for reforms to make worker health insurance affordable
4/21/09 - Small Business Majority Ohio Survey: Small Businesses Need Healthcare Reform
4/18/09 - BuzzFlash Interviews Chuck Collins on Taxes and Inequality
4/15/09 - Daily Cardinal: Health-care summit held in Madison
4/8/09 - Roll Call: Health Care: The Mother of All Policy Debates
3/23/09
Resource Spotlight
Current Campaigns
Reverse Unaffordable Tax Breaks
Our nation is in the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression and we need to make long overdue investments in education, health, transportation, infrastructure and green energy systems. Tell Congress and President Obama we can't afford to wait to repeal Bush-era tax breaks for households with taxable incomes over $235,000. We can't afford to lose $43 billion a year to invest in our country. Ending unaffordable tax breaks will help move our nation toward economic stability and sensible investment for the long-term health of our economy. Click here to Sign the Petition.
Small Business for Affordable Healthcare
New Small Business Majority research shows that healthcare reform involving a shared responsibility model -- with tax benefits for small businesses that offer health insurance and payments by employers who do not -- will dramatically reduce the cost to small businesses of providing health insurance, save jobs, preserve wages and bolster small business competitiveness. Read the full report, The Economic Impact of Healthcare Reform on Small Business. Read the Executive Summary.
Business for a Fair Minimum Wage
Don't Let Business Groups Against Raising the Minimum Wage Speak For You. Join nearly 900 owners and managers - including the CEOs of Costco, Addus HealthCare, ABC Home, Eileen Fisher, U.S. Women's Chamber of Commerce -and small business owners in every state who support a higher minimum wage.
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Watch BSP Director Holly Sklar on Bill Moyers Journal: Are We Living the American Dream in Reverse?
Quotable Quotes
The subjects of the state ought to contribute toward the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities; that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state."
-Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, 1776
I like to pay taxes. With them I buy civilization."
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Supreme Court Justice
The increase in the minimum wage is long overdue. Paying your employees well is not only the right thing to do but it makes for good business."
-Jim Sinegal, CEO, Costco
It is but equity...that they who feed, clothe and lodge the whole body of the people, should have such a share of the produce of their own labor as to be themselves tolerably well fed, clothed and lodged."
-Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, 1776
Solutions that depend on driving down costs by reducing wages and social benefits — in advanced countries or in emerging economies — are always dead ends…
Strategies based on exploiting low-wage labor end up in competitive jungles, where victories are vanishingly thin and each day brings a new competitor… The activities that succeed over time are, in contrast, those that build on continuous learning and innovation."
-Suzanne Berger, How We Compete: What Companies Around the World Are Doing To Make It in Today’s Global Economy (MIT Industrial Performance Center study of more than 500 companies)