National Association for the Self-Employed – Business Benefits, Educational Resources and Access to Health Insurance for Small Businesses and Startups > NASE Asks Lawmakers For Key Small Business Jobs Act Provisions To Be Extended

On May 19, 2011, the NASE was asked by the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship on how the effects of the Small Business Jobs Act, signed into law last fall, have been felt by the self-employed community.

NASE Executive Director Kristie Arslan argues that, despite accounting for 78 percent of all small businesses in the U.S. and collectively contributing about $1 trillion to the economy every year, this dynamic business demographic is too often misunderstood and underrepresented in the policy fashioned for small business. Our nation’s lawmakers and regulatory agencies commonly craft public policy geared toward the tiny sliver of the business demographic that is corporate America.

This narrow policy focus on a small percentage of businesses is why the Small Business Jobs Act was so crucial to our community. The Small Business Jobs Act of 2010 included key provisions that benefited the vast majority of micro-businesses and provided some much needed bottomline tax savings to the self-employed.

Read the entire testimony of NASE Executive Director Kristie Arslan, below:

NASE Testimony- Small Business Jobs Act Implementation

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