Hearings on the subject of access to capital and federal procurement and the release of Women Impacting Public Policy’s annual policy survey of women business owners make up the news of the week.

But, of course, the most amazing stuff is covered in this week’s Policy Matters column.

Amazing, that is, to listen to these two congressional hearings and hear people describing problems that are pretty specific to microbusinesses — although it wouldn’t really surprise me to learn that smaller non-micro small businesses have a bit of trouble navigating the federal procurement system.

What was even more amazing was that, this time, nobody dismissed those ‘very small businesses’ as insignificant or unimportant. They actually cared about the problems facing microbusinesses. I’m sure they’d deny it but that’s new.

It’s really extraordinary.

Now all we have to do is get them to start calling the businesses involved by their rightful name: microbusinesses.

Just so everybody knows what we’re really talking about.

For more information:

Hearing archive: “The Impact of the Credit Crunch on Small Business”
Hearing archive: “Ensuring Small Businesses Have Fair Access to Federal Contracts” (YouTube)
Women Impacting Public Policy

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