Comment on Latest COVID-19 Poll of Small Business Owners
Some improved numbers could get an extra boost from the right legislative proposals The state director for the association that released its 15th COVID-19 survey of its small-business owning membership today called it a good opportunity to remind California lawmakers of some significant steps they could take that would nicely build on some of the […]
POLITICS | Survey: Nearly 90% of Small Business Owners Oppose Prop. 21
Ballot initiative would exacerbate bad economy and make housing affordability worse SACRAMENTO, Calif., Sept. 30, 2020—Results from a survey of NFIB-member, small-business owners released today showed a nearly 90% opposition to Proposition 21, the November ballot initiative that would expand local governments’ authority to enact rent control on residential property. “Our members’ emphatic opposition to […]
Survey: 94% of Small Business Owners Oppose Prop. 15
NFIB members nearly unanimous in wanting to keep their property tax protections SACRAMENTO, Calif., Sept. 15, 2020—Results from a survey of its California small business members released today by NFIB showed 94 percent of them opposed to Proposition 15, the November ballot initiative that would radically alter the Proposition 13 property tax protections enacted 40 […]
BUSINESS | California Small Business – Comment on Today’s Depressing Jobs Report
SACRAMENTO, Calif., July 1, 2020—On the day California hit motorists with its annual increase in the gas tax and on the eve its state Senate is looking to pass a greatly expanded family leave law socking small-business owners with new costs, NFIB’s month Jobs Report showed, to little surprise, a worsening economy. “You have to […]
BUSINESS | Comment on Today’s Coronavirus Poll of Small Business Owners
SACRAMENTO, Calif., March 23, 2020—From John Kabateck, NFIB California state director, on this morning’s release of an NFIB poll on the coronavirus’ effect on small-business owners. “Small business recovery will be the pathway to America’s recovery. NFIB will continue to lead efforts to inform and engage mom-and-pop owners about developing stories and resources to help […]
