Fortune 1000

We project that by counting big businesses in the United States and Europe as small businesses the Obama Administration may be shortchanging middle class firms out of as much as $100 billion a year in contracts.

According to information in the Federal Procurement Data System, eight of the top ten recipients of federal small business contracts were actually large businesses or divisions of large businesses.

Legislation and policies that would reduce the volume of federal contracts obtained by legitimate small businesses could be even more devastating to our national economy.

The American Small Business League is concerned the Obama stimulus bill may ultimately include the loophole venture capitalists have been lobbying for.

Just days before the election, Obama dropped a comprehensive plan to stimulate the middle class economy by stopping the diversion of federal small business contracts to corporate giants.

Obama has ignored pleas from small business groups to adopt legislation and policies to stop Fortune 500 firms from commandeering up to $100 billion a year in federal small business contracts.

Petaluma, Calif. - President-elect Barack Obama has dropped a campaign promise to end Bush Administration policies that have allowed Fortune 500 firms...

The surprisingly low priority Obama has given small business issues on his websites is a clear indication this is not going to be a pro small business administration.

The multitude of problems that could arise by allowing government officials to ignore even the most foundational principals of the Federal Acquisition Regulation could be catastrophic.

The Bush "bailout bill" includes some suspicious language that has small business advocates concerned. The Bush Administration has been persistent in ...

Eleven and a half months after the end of the federal government's fiscal year (FY) 2007, new Acting Administrator of the Small Business Administratio...

Yesterday, the General Services Administration (GSA) issued a press release stating that the agency had exceeded all of its small business contracting...

A new bill set to be voted on by the full Senate could be the beginning of the end for millions of small businesses nationwide. The bill, S. 3362, pas...

In late July, the Small Business Administration (SBA) announced it would release its official federal small business contracting statistics for Fiscal...

Today, the American Small Business League (ASBL) released the following press release regarding the 2008 Democratic National Platform. After reviewi...

Today, the Washington Post's, "Government Inc." blog by Robert O'Harrow Jr. stated: "Like companies across the land, Blackwater sought to be designa...

The Small Business Administration ruled that Blackwater was a small business -- yet another example of the Bush administration diverting billions to some of the largest corporations in the world.

Location is not the only major contributing factor in determining whether small businesses are able to compete effectively for contracts with the federal government, it's also the diversion of those contracts to large corporations.

The Bush administration is gearing up to take one last shot at dismantling federal programs designed to assist middle class firms.