Latest News and Information from NFIB http://www.nfib.com/ en 13 Oct 2021 15:05:51 +0000 Copyright 2021, NFIB 2 Last sessions priorities for the small business community included the minimum business corporation tax, energy costs, regulatory reforms, truck tolling, and unemployment insurance reforms. https://ua.nfib.com/ 19 Sep 2016 00:00:00 +0000 The following statement may be attributed to Bill Vernon, National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) Rhode Island state director https://ua.nfib.com/ 08 Jun 2016 00:00:00 +0000 Senate Bill 2824 is before the Senate Health and Human Services Committee today. If implemented, the bill would repeal health care reform in Rhode Island and replace it with a government paid single payer system. https://ua.nfib.com/ 03 May 2016 00:00:00 +0000 Small businesses certainly understand all too well just how overwhelming the tax burden is in Rhode Island so that this ranking comes as no great shock to those in the trenches trying to survive in this business climate. https://ua.nfib.com/ 20 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000 Small Business Saturday is the perfect chance for holiday shoppers to support their local merchants, who also happen to be vested members of the community. https://ua.nfib.com/ 25 Nov 2015 00:00:00 +0000 Main Streets throughout the Ocean State will be bustling with shoppers on small business Saturday. https://ua.nfib.com/ 23 Nov 2015 00:00:00 +0000 Rhode Island has ranked poorly for far too long for anyone to be able to say with a straight face that what they are doing is working. https://ua.nfib.com/ 19 Nov 2015 00:00:00 +0000 Forward thinking and innovative. https://ua.nfib.com/ 04 Aug 2015 00:00:00 +0000 Certainly Rhode Islands roads and bridges are in need of repairs but there's a glaring lack of specifics in this proposal. https://ua.nfib.com/ 23 Jun 2015 00:00:00 +0000 Misguided and short sighted https://ua.nfib.com/ 23 Jun 2015 00:00:00 +0000 Bill would create a fundamentally different type of protected class. https://ua.nfib.com/ 27 May 2015 00:00:00 +0000 It should really come as no surprise, but its still disappointing, https://ua.nfib.com/ 08 Apr 2015 00:00:00 +0000 A bill before the Senate Labor Committee would mandate the course given by the state Department of Labor. https://ua.nfib.com/ 01 Apr 2015 00:00:00 +0000 Small business owners certainly support and welcome Governor Raimondos focus on job growth. https://ua.nfib.com/ 12 Mar 2015 00:00:00 +0000 The Governor should be paying more attention to the economic facts and less attention to the big union rhetoric. https://ua.nfib.com/ 09 Mar 2015 00:00:00 +0000 NFIB opposes legislation that would require young teens to take a course in workers rights prior to obtaining a work permit. https://ua.nfib.com/ 26 Feb 2015 00:00:00 +0000 No wonder Rhode Island's unemployment rate continues to lag behind the rest of the country. https://ua.nfib.com/ 04 Feb 2015 00:00:00 +0000 NFIB says Obamacare provision discourages full-time employment https://ua.nfib.com/ 06 Jan 2015 00:00:00 +0000 RI small businesses and residents need access to clean and affordable energy. To ensure access to low cost natural gas, the underground pipelines to New England must be enhanced with access for local power companies. https://ua.nfib.com/ 15 Oct 2014 00:00:00 +0000 New England's unemployment rate was unchanged in August at 5.9 percent, but Rhode Island still had the highest jobless rate among the six states at 7.7 percent. https://ua.nfib.com/ 15 Oct 2014 00:00:00 +0000