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	<title>Microbusiness News Briefs</title>
	
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		<title>Policy Does Matter, You Know</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:45:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dawn Rivers Baker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Policy Matters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[microbusinesses]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[relationships]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.microbusinessnewsbriefs.com/?p=640</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I don't mean that you can have the same kind and quality of influence as the corporate giants who fill the campaign coffers of politicians, directly or indirectly.

I mean that you can have influence because of something it won't take you a second to understand: <strong>relationships</strong>.

The relationships you develop with your elected representatives and their staff can accomplish a great deal, if you give them sufficient time and attention.]]></description>
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		<title>Advocacy Releases Timely Jobs Report</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:40:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dawn Rivers Baker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[employment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jobs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[microbusiness]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.microbusinessnewsbriefs.com/?p=638</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Given all the yelling about ‘jobs, jobs, jobs,&#8217; the SBA Office of Advocacy released a particularly timely report last week, aptly entitled An Analysis of Small Business and Jobs. The paper, authored by Advocacy economist Brian Headd, bills itself as a primer to help policy makers (and anyone else who happens to be interested) &#8220;understand [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SBA Issues New Rule For Women’s Contracting Program</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MicrobusinessNewsBriefs/~3/DB-sbt8EEac/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:39:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dawn Rivers Baker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics & Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[federal procurement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[microbusiness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[women owned business]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.microbusinessnewsbriefs.com/?p=636</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It looks like the SBA is finally going to implement that Women&#8217;s Federal Procurement Program that so many women&#8217;s groups were fighting about with the Bush Administration for eight long years. It all started back in 2000 when President Bill Clinton signed the Equity in Contracting for Women Act, which called for the SBA to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bipartisan Tax Reform Proposal Is Mixed Bag</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MicrobusinessNewsBriefs/~3/DFtSeDNhj1M/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:38:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dawn Rivers Baker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Regulations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bipartisanship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[microbusiness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax reform]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.microbusinessnewsbriefs.com/?p=634</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the big surprises contained in the research released last month by the Microbusiness Research Institute (MRI) was the microbusiness take on taxes. For years, small business lobbying organizations stoutly asserted that the nation&#8217;s small business owners wanted lower tax rates. They do, too, but the MRI research found that more of them want [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No Going Back Now</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 03:43:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dawn Rivers Baker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Policy Matters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coach for Innovation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dee McCrory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[labor market]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.microbusinessnewsbriefs.com/?p=632</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last night, I was a guest on Blog Talk Radio's <a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/coachforinnovation">Coach for Innovation with Dee McCrory</a>. The subject under discussion was microbusinesses and jobs and the future of the American workplace.

Dee and I talked for an hour. We could easily have talked for two. It's a big subject.

I've been writing about that subject here and everywhere else I write for a long time. Lately, it's been a regular topic.]]></description>
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		<title>Will Micros Get Help From Export Push?</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MicrobusinessNewsBriefs/~3/ORCezBXXsJI/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 03:36:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dawn Rivers Baker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics & Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[exporting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[microbusiness]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.microbusinessnewsbriefs.com/?p=630</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Commerce Secretary Gary Locke attempted to make headlines last week on a visit to Ellicott Dredges in Baltimore, MD, to chat up President Obama&#8217;s National Export Initiative. In his State of the Union address in January, the President vowed to double U.S. exports within the next five years and, as with several other items intended [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Microbusiness Employers Continue Toward Recovery</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MicrobusinessNewsBriefs/~3/mmbOs1Kl7Z0/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 03:35:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dawn Rivers Baker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dynamic employment data]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[microbusiness employers]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.microbusinessnewsbriefs.com/?p=628</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By the second quarter of last year, everybody&#8217;s jobs numbers were looking a bit better, with the notable exception of the largest firm size class, according to the 2Q 2009 Business Employment Dynamics data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) last week. The 2Q dynamic jobs numbers show that the evident beginnings of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Work, Work, Work</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MicrobusinessNewsBriefs/~3/RCppo_s7QK0/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 17:19:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dawn Rivers Baker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Policy Matters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[employment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[microbusiness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nonemployers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[self-employment]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.microbusinessnewsbriefs.com/?p=626</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This new recession is a really deep one, resulting in unprecedented numbers of long-term unemployed putting an unprecedented strain on that system of social safety nets I was talking about last week.

"We have a work-based safety net without any work," said Timothy M. Smeeding, director of the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in the article.

Nobody knows how long it'll be before the jobs return but it's pretty clear that what we're doing right now — lurching along with these costly, last-minute extensions of unemployment insurance — is unsustainable.]]></description>
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		<title>4Q Indicators Show Slow Early Recovery</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MicrobusinessNewsBriefs/~3/5rEBM0e6nEg/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 17:15:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dawn Rivers Baker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[microbusiness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Research]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.microbusinessnewsbriefs.com/?p=624</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week, the SBA Office of Advocacy released the latest in its series of Quarterly Indicators briefs, this time reporting on the fourth quarter of 2009. So, now, I get to throw a bunch of numbers at you, the good news being that there will not be a quiz when I&#8217;m done. The Commerce Department [...]]]></description>
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		<title>House Set To Pass Smaller Health Care Bills</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MicrobusinessNewsBriefs/~3/HOlm-T4vY_c/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 17:14:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dawn Rivers Baker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics & Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[microbusiness]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.microbusinessnewsbriefs.com/?p=622</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[After all the drama surrounding the down-to-the-wire Senate health care reform bill, which was finally passed on Christmas Eve, 2009, it&#8217;s a bit anticlimactic to have to report that President Obama is still having to urge Senate Democrats to ‘finish the job.&#8217; There remain enough differences between the House and Senate versions of the bill [...]]]></description>
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