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Election year turns up few ‘hot button’ business issues.
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If you ask a small-business lobbyist his position on issues, he won’t hesitate to tell you. But with the economy strong, the small-business agenda this presidential election year might not have the same urgency it’s had in past years. “People may say they’re fed up with (President Bill) Clinton from one standpoint, but they’ll say, ‘By golly, come to think of it, things have been going really well,"‘ said Wayne Corey, executive director of Wisconsin independent Business Inc., a small-business lobbying group in Madison. Philosophically, small-business owners may oppose such policies as the Family & Medical Leave Act, the increased minimum wage and other government regulation, but as long as the economy is healthy, they aren’t storming the gates as strongly… More : accessmylibrary.com |
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