San Francisco Voters Will Have a Chance To Undo Regulations Strangling Small Businesses
Prop H will make it easier for businesses to set up shop or readapt their space, all while preventing nosey neighbors from bringing everything to a halt.
Prop H will make it easier for businesses to set up shop or readapt their space, all while preventing nosey neighbors from bringing everything to a halt.
A government survey finds that prepping for hard times can have wide benefits.
How local governments bully your favorite local shops and services.
The PPP hasn't worked as planned, and one cheery exception does not disprove the rule.
"I just wanted to help out my community and family," said Miguel Lozano.
In the face of the greatest challenge in generations, America's chefs, bartenders, and restaurant owners are reinventing their food, their businesses, and themselves.
Data from Yelp shows that the long-term economic toll of the coronavirus pandemic is only starting to be realized. And federal unemployment data shows layoffs are climbing again.
Even if it's true, taxpayers paid $58,000 for each saved job.
Making a living is a right, not a privilege, and should be respected as such.
The Small Business Administration will always fail the people it's meant to help.
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Making businesses close early will not stop the spread of COVID-19.
In a nation of edicts, we serve at the pleasure of the king.
Gov. Greg Abbott made the change after a Dallas salon owner was jailed for reopening her salon.
Texas salons are allowed to reopen on Friday. Shelley Luther will be sitting in jail.
St. Louis tattlers discover their complaints about open businesses are public records.
Lockdown enforcement is becoming more authoritarian.
Restaurants and shops are already suffering enough.
The libertarian-leaning congressman says the Paycheck Protection Program for small businesses discriminates against those that most need it.
And Georgia will reopen select businesses beginning April 24.
The company says it will return the money after it was announced that the Paycheck Protection Program ran out of funding.
The $349 billion loan program is meant to help small companies hit hard by social distancing.
Unclear terms, unrealistic loan forgiveness, a site unprepared for launch, and a bottomless demand for cash
Lawmakers are still seeking a compromise.
City reports and industry find taxes, regulation, and permitting delays are often a bigger drag on small businesses than rising rents.
The initiative would leave untouched all the city regulations that've made it so hard to start a business in the first place.
35 states have laws that let established businesses block new businesses. This hurts consumers.
Green Angel CBD had the proper documentation for their shipment, but that didn't stop the New York cops.
The company was criticized for serving ICE employees, then criticized for apologizing.
By one vote, the city's planning commission denied a business's request to stop a competing falafel shop from opening up down the block.
Dump intrusive trade policies to give a real boost to consumers and entrepreneurs.
As the U.S.-China trade war escalates again, farmers and small businesses are getting hurt the most, but global manufacturing is taking a hit too.
Entrepreneur Magatte Wade explains how regulations are keeping Africa poor.
A weekend where a few items are free of sales taxes is a poor substitute for permanent reforms.
Warren proposes giving grants to minority-owned small businesses, but regulations she supported reduced access to capital for aspiring entrepreneurs.
Still, it's better than the administration's previous proposals to cut legal immigration in half.
Prohibiting businesses from going cardless ignores the choices of consumers and businesses alike.
An overlooked ruling could force small businesses to pay sales tax in dozens, even hundreds, of jurisdictions where they have no representation.
They say it discriminates against those without checking or savings accounts.
Businesses owners, not politicians, should have the final say over how their customers pay.
The ban may be well-intentioned, but it's misguided all the same.
One neighbor said she was concerned about the extra traffic.
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Why does an economy car rent for an astonishing $161 per day in Manhattan? Because onerous insurance laws cartelized the industry.
A ban could be in effect by 2021.
Chicago considers banning businesses that won't accept cash payments.