Entries from BizBox Blog on Slate tagged with 'Barack Obama'
Banks Not Buying Obama's Plan
We reported on this before, and now new information is making it ever more clear: President Barack Obama can encourage increased community bank lending to small businesses all he wants, and it's still going to be an uphill battle to...
Obama Supports Mandatory Sick Leave
Drudge Siren, Drudge Siren! Looks like President Barack Obama is getting behind a federal bill that, in reaction to the H1N1 epidemic, would mandate paid sick leave at all businesses with 15 or more employees. The Deputy Secretary of Labor...
The Banks Don't Like Obama's New Plan
Though the main target of President Obama's plan to increase small business lending is, naturally, small businesses--particularly those in need of credit--it appears to be something that would help the community banks, too. After all, they would be permitted to...
Our Anonymous Banker Takes On Obama
President Obama’s small business lending plan calls for increasing the maximum size of SBA 7(a) and 504 loans to $5 million. It also would increase the limits on micro-loans. The plan would lower rates (the bank’s cost of funds) for...
How The Newly Important Community Banks Are Doing
Since President Obama's new plan to increase small-business credit envisions a major role for the community banks--those small, locally-focused institutions wither under $1 billion in assets--it's probably important that we take stock of how those banks are doing. According to...
Details of Obama's Small Business Plan Emerge
Today, President Barack Obama headed out just past the Beltway to Landover, Md.--home of, among other things, FedEx Field, the stadium of perhaps the National Football League's most hapless franchise (Impeach Dan Synder!)--to tout his new plans to help small...
Breaking: Obama Proposes Small Biz Program
Sorta big news! Faced with complaints that his administration focused on helping the biggest banks at the expense of smaller ones, as well as homeowners and other worthy recipients of aid (like small businesses), President Barack Obama will propose...
Obama Talks To Small Business on Health Care
Via Inc., President Barack Obama took some time in his weekly Saturday radio address to make the small business-specific case for health care reform along the lines he's proposed. "Under these proposals," he argued, "small businesses will be able to...
What Employers Should Know About 401(k) Investment Advice
Last week, the Labor Department formally killed a Bush administration regulation (which it had already placed on life support) that would have permitted mutual funds, brokers, and the like to hire advisers who could in turn consult with 401(k)...
Broadening Broadband
Back before he was even president, we praised Barack Obama's proposal to use government funds to expand rural broadband access as a pro-entrepreneur move. Now it will not matter where you live--if you have a great idea for a business,...
Obama's Report Card
Fortune examines how good a job President Obama has done at accomplishing what he promised he would for small businesses. They split his agenda into four categories: the credit crunch; health care; taxes; and job losses. Here's what Fortune had...
Obama's Approval Down Among Small Business Owners
Even as President Obama's approval ratings across a wide swath of ideological/demographic groups remains impressive, one community remains relatively unconvinced: small business owners. A City Business Journals survey showed that almost three in five small business owners--really owners of small...
Happy Inauguration Day!
Well, since they're even excited in Oklahoma, it seems alright for BizBox, too, to announce its excitement. We'll be vigilant in watching the new administration propose and attempt to pass an economic stimulus plan, continue no doubt to fabricate bailouts...
"Facebook for Citizens"
We've discussed candidate Barack Obama's prowess as a marketer--a marketer of his own brand. Today we look at Obama the social-networker. No, not candidate Barack Obama the social-networker. President Barack Obama the social-networker. Farhad Manjoo at BizBox sister site...
Obama the Marketer
It's been a week since Barack Obama pulled off his resounding victory. The postmortems have credited any number of factors: Obama's superior campaign; the massive warchest he amassed; the utterly debased status of the Republican brand; John McCain's selection...
How Did You Vote?
Independent Street raises the question of whether the small business vote swung Democratic this time around (certainly the rest of the country's vote did!). To back up a bit: although small business owners, representing an estimated 15% of registered...
The NFIB's Post-Election Agenda
The group's president and CEO Todd Stottlemyer lays it out here. Suffice to say that many of the items enumerated on the ten-point plan are not exactly Democratic priorities. Indeed, the NFIB is going to be none too pleased...
Rock The Vote!
It's that day. (Should your employees have time off? Here's your answer.) This election has created unprecedented excitement, and there is a chance turnout will be record-high, so chances are you've voted anyway. But really, make sure you go...
McCain Leads Among Small Businesses; Good News For Obama?
When we layed out McCain and Obama's positions on issues particularly relevant to small businesses (think taxes, trade, health care, and the like), we noted that owners of such businesses tend to lean Republican due to that party's reputation...
Winning The Hearts (And Votes) Of Small Business Owners
The New York Times runs a phenomenal article on the 16-23 million (depending on your estimate) people who own small businesses, who represent at least around 15% of registered voters. The article specifically explores what these voters would like...
"As the political season heats up..."
Chances are you've read your fair share of articles, blogposts, or even emails that begin with some variation of the above in the past couple months. Fact is, politics is on everyone's mind right now (and for good reason)....
McCain and Obama's Positions
As we gear up for the relatively brief (under two months!) remainder of the presidential contest,, it is worth taking a gander at the candidates' respective positions on issues that especially affect entrepreneurs and small business owners--and, through them,...
Now THIS Is Entrepreneurship
We wrote a post a couple of weeks ago called "Cashing In On The Campaign" advising you to take advantage of the heightened interest this year in the presidential election and in politics more broadly. But never did we...
Cashing in on the Campaign
Sen. Barack Obama is set to break all fundraising records, and even Sen. John McCain looks likely to hold his own in that department. More broadly, the 2008 election features the first-ever African-American candidate and the first campaign with...
Universal Health Insurance: Good For (Small) Business?
In a recent conversation at Bloggingheads.tv, Mark Schmitt, the editor of the liberal political and policy monthly The American Prospect, makes the case for increased public health coverage of the type Sen. Barack Obama has proposed from the perspective...
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