Recommendations
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SBA should develop government-sponsored solutions to universal small business and employee needs in order to level the playing field with big business competition:
- Paid family and medical leave for employees. 64% of small business owners favor the US having a national policy for paid family and medical leave. Support the paid leave proposasl in the American Families Plan and House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal’s Building an Economy for Families Act.
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Portable programs for employee retirement benefits.
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No-fee technical assistance for startups and underserved entrepreneurs to include bookkeeping and computer skills.
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