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At least Democrats are on message. The party even launched a campaign this summer in seven battleground states to make the case that the Trump economy is actually bad.

Alfredo Ortiz writes at FoxBusiness about the upcoming Democrat primary debates with emphasis on the impact on small business of the various contenders’ socialist policies

Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke told BET viewers Saturday of his plan to expand capital for black American communities.

“We have to reject the socialist model,” Trump said, calling for freedom of choice and access to the best health care plans.

Small business optimism improved in April, with business owners feeling better about the economy, hiring, and earnings.

Mykala Steadman of the Young Leaders Program at The Heritage Foundation writes in the Daily Signal about how president and CEO of Job Creators Network Alfredo Ortiz became a champion of capitalism and small business and went after Alexandria Ocasio-Cortiz.

An Ohio music shop owner placed a sign in front of his shop turning away supporters of President Trump, saying he felt “unclean and dirty” from doing business with them.

Polls asking American households and businesses about the health of the American economy reveal sharp political divisions.

Job Creator’s Network slammed a report Monday for “contorted spin” on small business optimism, while citing nearly all CEOs of such businesses expect increased or equal revenues in 2019.

Alfredo Ortiz of Job Creators Network writes in The Hill, calling upon President Trump to use the State of the Union Address as an opportunity to tout the current robust economy and urge more of the same policies be pursued.

Alfredo Ortiz writes at Fox News extolling the vibrancy of small business in the Trump economy but warning that this success could be imperiled by government policies favored by Democrats.

Alfredo Ortiz of Job Creators Network writes in The Hill that the $15 minimum wage, a top priority for the new Democrat House majority, could seriously hurt the economic climate for small business.

Small businesses are fleeing Facebook after sweeping changes made to its news feed showing “more posts from friends and family” and “less public content,” from commercial entities.

The Small Business Optimism Index marked its second highest level in the survey’s 45-year history at 107.9, just below the July 1983 record-high of 108.

New York state lawmakers passed a bill at the end of the legislative session mandating that employees be entitled to three months of paid bereavement leave to mourn loved ones who passed away—including grandparents.

American workers employed at small businesses across the United States are benefitting strongly with increased wages thanks to President Trump clamping down on immigration. 

A record number of American small businesses have hired new workers in the month of July, a new survey finds.

“Small business owners continue to report astounding optimism as they celebrate strong sales, the creation of jobs, and more profits,” said NFIB President and CEO Juanita Duggan.

Plans for business expansion, reports of positive earnings trends, and compensation increases broke new records. Expectations for strong increases in sales reached their highest level since 1995.

With all the talk of trade war and tariffs in the media lately, we often hear from economists and CEOs of major corporations, but we don’t often hear from the small business owners who feel the pain the most when costs are increased even by just a small amount.

Eight of the index’s ten components declined from the very high levels seen in February. Even with the declines, however, many of the components remain near all-time highs.

President Trump’s era of economic nationalism is putting “intense pressure” on corporations to raise the wages of American workers.

Small-business confidence has reached new heights in 2018 after President Donald Trump signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.

A record number of small business owners have raised wages for their American workers as President Trump’s administration has ushered in a new era of a tighter labor market with strict immigration enforcement.

Small business optimism is booming. Optimism among small businesses in the U.S. rose by more than expected, with a record number of small business owners saying now is a good time to expand, according to the National Federal of Independent Business survey released Tuesday.

The first year of President Donald Trump’s administration produced the strongest level of confidence in America’s small business owners on record.

Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue talked about tax reform with SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Tuesday’s edition of Breitbart News Daily. Perdue was particularly enthusiastic about lifting the tax burden on small businesses and eliminating the “death tax” on inherited property.

Bernie Marcus, the co-founder of Job Creators Network and the retired co-founder of The Home Depot, writes in an op-ed in the Hill that the Republican tax bill will provide small businesses with much-needed relief.

President and CEO of Job Creators Network Alfredo Ortiz discussed President Trump’s tax reform plan with Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Stephen K. Bannon on Friday.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Rep. Bill Johnson (R-OH) says Republicans and Democrats need to stop politicizing tax reform and work in favor of America’s working class to pass legislation that will take the financial burden off of small businesses.

Former Deputy Adviser to the president Dr. Sebastian Gorka looked at the battle between the Trump White House and the media, holdovers from the Obama administration, and the entrenched bureaucracy on Thursday’s Breitbart News Daily.

President Donald Trump declared that “America is on the verge of a golden age for small business” to a room full of entrepreneurs and legislators at the White House on Tuesday, using a 16-year low in unemployment, 2.6 percent GDP, and a record stock market high as evidence.

An op-ed by Alfredo Ortiz, President and CEO of the Job Creators Network, points out that “small business expansion is negligible” in the U.S., and “there has been a decades-long slowdown in new business creation.”

“The devil is in the details,” Bernie Sanders said. “We’ve got to see what these regulations are. It’s very easy to blame Barack Obama for everything, by the way. Some of those regulations may be state, may be local,” the Vermont senator said.

Donald Trump’s election as president has made many small business owners more upbeat about 2017.

The November Index of Small Business Optimism from the National Federation of Independent Business shows small businesses have gained confidence with the expectation of better conditions under the new Trump administration.