The Legislature must fix the California Consumer Privacy Act before it takes effect on Jan. 1, 2020.  The law is riddled with unclear definitions, overly broad mandates, and small errors that will lead to unnecessary costs and widespread confusion about compliance. When the California Consumer Privacy Act  passed in 2018, we heard many promises that […]

Trade wars and tariffs may be roiling Wall Street but businesses along Main Street, America, continue to power our prosperity, according to NFIB’s latest Small Business Economic Trends report released this morning. I’m worried less about external forces hindering this great economy than I am about the internal threats emanating from state capitols across the […]

After a brief hiccup over a government shutdown, the small-business economy across America is back humming, according to the latest Small Business Economic Trends (SBET) report released today. Now, it remains to be seen how much damage California policymakers can do to it with purposely self-inflicted wounds. Federal policies have always prevailed over state ones, […]

With Governor Jerry Brown’s final bill signature/veto deadline in our rear-view mirror, and the upcoming election of a new Governor and legislature just around the corner, now is an important time for small business owners—and all California taxpayers—to reflect on some of the greatest victories from this past session and important challenges ahead in the […]

Although many in Sacramento cite selective statistics to claim California’s business climate is great—such as our current 5th largest GDP in the world—small business owners understand the reality that California’s ever-increasing cost of doing business is strangling small businesses from expanding and forcing many others to leave the state. In a survey released just last […]

Last week, the National Federation of Independent Business/California, the voice of small business in California, unveiled our annual voting record for each Senator and Assemblymember in the State Capitol. Each year, NFIB/CA identifies and lobbies on bills which would have the most significant impact, either positive or negative, on small businesses. Based on their vote on these critical […]

The not surprising reaction of some in the California legislature to the debate over repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act is to propose a state-run single-payer healthcare model. I say “not surprising“ because there have been attempts in the past to secure a single-payer plan in California, and the negative reaction in deep blue California to the Trump […]

As President Donald Trump and the new Congress sharpen their scalpel to cut and remodel the Affordable Care Act, what does that mean for small businesses in California? Covered California, the state program that administers the health care act, is probably a better model compared to other state exchanges. Yet, the program has not been devoid […]

With the holiday shopping season focused on big name companies on Black Friday and the growth of online buying, small business, rightfully called the ‘engine of the job-making economy,’ is sometimes ignored. That’s why it is satisfying to see the survey results released by the National Federation of Independent Business and American Express declaring the […]