News & Media

The grim state of the economy is not news, and when it hits a key component of your public affairs and lobbying programs, it’s time for a serious reassessment and plan for how to compensate for the loss.

California small businesses must deal with new laws and rules that took effect at the beginning of the year that change the business landscape. Your businesses must be prepared.

Removing 80% of a small retailer’s customer capacity is as good as shutting them down completely

Word that Gov. Gavin Newsom is considering implementing a stricter stay-at-home-order amid skyrocketing COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations has business leaders very nervous at the height of the holiday shopping season.

Small Business Saturday on November 28 is this event’s most important in its 11-year history because of what the pandemic has done to small businesses and their workers.

A great November 28 needed to help California’s small businesses weather worst time ever

The National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) released its monthly Small Business Economic Trends report, showing a rise in the number of business owners who feel uncertain about the future.

In the end, enough small-business owners, their employees, their families, and the people of their communities saw through the fallacious arguments put out by proponents of Prop. 15.

Another legislative session has come to close here in California and, once again, lawmakers have let Californians down. Why? There is a fundamental issue that has been hurting our great state for many years that lawmakers simply refuse to address: lawsuit abuse.

Small businesses throughout California are happy to see the ‘No’ vote on Proposition 15 holding a narrow lead, but they will watch to see if it will stick.

The ins-and-outs of federal Paycheck Protection Program loans, the perils of extending the state’s sales tax to services, the battle to stop the rollback of Proposition 13 property tax protections, and what California’s ballot propositions mean to small business were the topics of NFIB California’s first four podcasts.

California ’s new jobless claims dropped from 159,876 a week ago to 152,057 last week. Weekly claims increased by 1,649 in Arizona; 7,871 in Illinois; and 8,763 in Michigan. All three states have seen a recent rise in new coronavirus cases. Since California has historically seen many out-of-state visitors, the continuing pandemic and its economic effects nationwide are likely to hinder the recovery of the state’s tourism sector.