U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Challenged to Put Up or Shut Up on Contracting Abuses
I have talked to hundreds of Hispanic business owners and Hispanic chambers of commerce across the country that want nothing to do with the USHCC.
I have talked to hundreds of Hispanic business owners and Hispanic chambers of commerce across the country that want nothing to do with the USHCC.
Nelson Davis | Posted 06.30.2009 | Business
Despite the nice words and flowery press releases extolling the virtues and value of small business owners, I don't see the true love and understanding that the small business community deserves.
Lloyd Chapman | Posted 06.19.2009 | Business
A recent post on the U.S Chamber of Commerce website titled, "Business United or Business Divided - What's at Stake?" is one of the best examples you ...
Jonathan A. Schein | Posted 06.16.2009 | Business
The Small Business Admistration has amended its existing 504 loan program, which was originally created to encourage small- to medium-sized business o...
Lloyd Chapman | Posted 06.02.2009 | Business
Seven years ago this summer, I began working with the Government Accountability Office (GAO) on what turned out to be the first federal investigation ...
Lloyd Chapman | Posted 05.27.2009 | Business
America's 27 million small businesses have a new hero and his name is Hank Johnson. Last Friday, Georgia Congressman Hank Johnson (GA-04) introduced ...
Lloyd Chapman | Posted 05.26.2009 | Business
President Barack Obama has moved one step closer to adopting federal policies and legislation that will divert billions of dollars in federal small bu...
Lloyd Chapman | Posted 05.20.2009 | Business
President Barack Obama has recently released top-secret CIA memos detailing torture techniques and directives. At the same time those extremely sensit...
Josh Dorner | Posted 05.15.2009 | Green
Rather than being some shadowy "White House document" objecting to those overzealous greens at the EPA, it could have been written by almost anyone within the vast federal bureaucracy.
Lloyd Chapman | Posted 05.07.2009 | Business
On May 7th, 2003, I testified at a hearing before the House Committee on Small Business regarding the diversion of federal small business contracts to...
Lloyd Chapman | Posted 04.29.2009 | Business
I endorsed you during the primary; you even put my endorsement on the front page of your campaign website. I donated thousands of dollars to your camp...
Lloyd Chapman | Posted 04.28.2009 | Business
President Obama's first 100 days in office have failed to live up to his campaign promises, and the expectations of millions of women, minorities and ...
Lloyd Chapman | Posted 04.15.2009 | Business
On Wednesday, United States District Judge Marilyn H. Patel issued an order directing the Small Business Administration (SBA) to pay the American Smal...
Lloyd Chapman | Posted 04.13.2009 | Politics
President Barack Obama is a smart man, and he has no doubt surrounded himself with a multitude of well-educated and extremely intelligent individuals....
Lloyd Chapman | Posted 04.08.2009 | Business
During the Bush Administration over 15 federal investigations and two private studies have found fraud, and widespread blatant abuses in a variety of ...
Lloyd Chapman | Posted 04.01.2009 | Politics
New Administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) Karen Mills' first weeks in office will be easily predictable. My guess is that Mil...
Lloyd Chapman | Posted 03.18.2009 | Home
Head of litigation for the Small Business Administration (SBA) Eric Benderson, denied the SBA actually lost a federal court case filed by the American...
Tim Berry | Posted 03.18.2009 | Business
There are something like 25 million small businesses and 20 million of them have no employees. How does the government help them?
Don McNay | Posted 02.09.2009 | Business
There has been a long and irreversible trend toward small, entrepreneurial businesses, located far from money centers. Instead, Washington keeps throwing money at these "too big to fail" money losers.
George Cloutier | Posted 02.02.2009 | Business
$25 billion in loans to the Small Business Administration could mean more than 2 million jobs, immediately. This is not some small interest group. This is the backbone of our economy.
Lloyd Chapman | Posted 01.23.2009 | Business
There is no way to know exactly how many billions of dollars George W. Bush cheated American small businesses out of during his eight years in office....
Chris Gunn | Posted 12.30.2008 | Business
Today, The American Small Business League released the following video via YouTube regarding the ASBL's prediction that with the help of senior democr...
Susan Wilson Solovic | Posted 12.23.2008 | Business
The Small Business Administration was founded to strengthen the overall economy by helping small businesses start and grow. Does the SBA actually do what it's supposed to do?
Lloyd Chapman | Posted 12.23.2008 | Business
President-elect Barack Obama has nominated Karen Gordon Mills as Administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA). Mills is president of...
AP | PHILIP ELLIOTT | Posted 12.19.2008 | Business
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Lloyd Chapman | Posted 07.10.2009 | Politics