Dashboard: The State of Small Business, 2024

This week, John Arensmeyer, founder and CEO of the advocacy group Small Business Majority, tells us that he senses considerable optimism among the many business owners in his network notwithstanding some concern for looming policy and economic issues. Among those issues, John tells Loren Feldman are: access to capital, the cost of health care and health insurance, relations between franchisors and franchisees, price discrimination against smaller businesses, the burden of the new Corporate Transparency Act, and the upcoming battle over the sunsetting of the Trump tax cuts.Show Notes:You can find more information about the Corporate Transparency Act requirement here.