Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Fred L. Smith Jr. Fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. Certain official proclamations in recent weeks have highlighted ...

Madison Lile is a Spring Grove High School student, one of 9 area students participating in the Journal Writing Project, now in its 27th year.

Today was Small Business Saturday and people all around the country spent their day supporting their favorite locally owned businesses. Owner of Made in Corpus Christi, Nikki Riojas says that Small ...

America’s more than 32 million small businesses play an indispensable role in driving the U.S. economy. Small businesses account for 43.5% of gross domestic product, employ 61.7 million workers and ...

The Small Business Administration raised fees on its flagship 7(a) loan program in an effort to course correct after the program lost money for the first time in more than a decade. The move will no ...

The SBA says it’s bringing back discipline after a stretch of loose lending. But in trying to clean things up, it's tangling up deals that don’t need fixing. Deals are falling apart as the SBA is set ...

The Small Business Administration’s flagship 7(a) loan program reportedly showed losses of hundreds of millions last year, but any suggestion of its demise would be premature—even with the unique ...

The Small Business Administration cites the guilty pleas of a former contracting officer and industry executives in a decades-long bribery scheme. The Small Business Administration will carry out an ...