Jul 20, 2020 | COVID-19, Family Business Stories, Family Businesses, Family Enterprise USA
Inspiration had struck, and Melissa Johnson was going with it. “As I’ve grown older, I can’t say I’ve necessarily grown wiser. I know there is a whole lot I don’t know,” she wrote in a Facebook post one recent Friday. “The only thing I know for sure is that an act of...
Jun 23, 2020 | COVID-19, Family Business Stories, Family Businesses, Family Enterprise USA
Our company was founded by my grandpa in 1953 as Seneca Sawmill. We are now owned by my mother and my two aunts. We have grown over the years and we now have 168,000 acres of timberlands that we manage sustainably (we have 92% more timber on that land than we had 25...
Jun 16, 2020 | COVID-19, Family Business Stories, Family Business Survey, Family Businesses, Family Enterprise USA, Presentation
Family Enterprise USA’s 2020 survey sheds light on factors that family business owners see as obstacles to growth. Legislators must know what is important to family business owners — what helps or hurts them when it comes to operating their businesses and creating...
May 26, 2020 | COVID-19, Family Enterprise USA, In The News
The Senate has left for their Memorial Day district work period. When the upper chamber returns on June 1, it’s likely to focus on clearing pending presidential nominations as House Democrats and Senate Republicans remain far apart on the next round of COVID-19...
May 24, 2020 | COVID-19, Family Enterprise USA, In The News
While the world is slowly starting to open up and move toward “normal,” it seems as if DC has already gotten there – politically at least. After passing four stimulus bills on a pretty bi-partisan basis – and racking up almost $3 trillion in spending – political...
May 19, 2020 | Family Enterprise USA, In The News
By Hedda Schuapak, Family Business Magazine. NextGens’ innovative ideas can revitalizes their family companies. Here are three examples. When twin sisters Jenny Dinnen and Katie Rucker took over MacKenzie Corp., an analytics firm in Lake Forest, Calif., in 2013,...
Apr 22, 2020 | COVID-19, Family Enterprise USA, In The News
The U.S. Senate gave its approval yesterday to a $500 billion interim coronavirus relief measure providing additional funding for small businesses, hospitals and health providers, and other national COVID-19 priorities (discussed further below). But the biggest news...
Apr 21, 2020 | COVID-19, Family Enterprise USA, In The News
The U.S. Congress is expected this week to reach agreement on and pass a bill to add hundreds of billions of dollars in fresh funding to the CARES Act’s small business lending account, the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), which ran out of money last week. The...
Apr 18, 2020 | Family Enterprise USA, In The News
Donald Trump President Trump on Friday renewed his calls for a broad payroll tax cut as part of a “phase four” coronavirus relief package to ease the economic pain caused by the pandemic. Joe Biden According to the latest delegate count, former VP Joe...
Apr 17, 2020 | COVID-19, Family Enterprise USA, In The News
The federal Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), established weeks ago under the bipartisan CARES Act to provide a lifeline to small enterprises slammed by the economic shock wave of COVID-19, ran out of money Thursday. With a divided Congress at odds over whether funds...
