LANSING, MI – The Small Business Association of Michigan’s Small Biz PAC today announced its first round of candidate endorsements for the Michigan House of Representatives and Michigan Senate. “Small […]
Promote the Vote 2022, the constitutional amendment proposal that would allow voters without an ID to vote with an affidavit and creates an early voting system in Michigan, has spent […]
Republicans have promised to deliver worthwhile tax relief in the age of ascending inflation and costly necessities, and GOP senators hope a $2 billion “tax cut” allowance will help them […]
Members of a joint House and Senate Oversight committee announced Wednesday they would be issuing subpoenas to have former Unemployment Insurance Agency (UIA) Director Steve Gray appear to answer questions […]
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed a bill Monday to crack down on unemployment fraud and lower the cost of unemployment for small businesses in Michigan. HB 5525 adds $139.8 million to the Unemployment Compensation […]
Originally featured in SBAM’s FOCUS Magazine It’s no secret that 2022 brings with it a politically charged, contentious election season. This fact, coupled with newly redistricted maps for the State […]
Legislation was signed yesterday that SBAM worked diligently on, which deposits $100 million more into the Unemployment Compensation Fund. This is the latest in a series of deposits to ensure […]
Three Republican Senators joined all 50 Democrats Thursday to confirm federal appeals judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the U.S. Supreme Court. Cheers greeted Jackson as the 53-47 vote was announced, making her […]
New national polling data suggests Democrats have every reason in the world to believe that their president is a drag on the mid-term election for them, but the suggestion that […]
Opinion piece by SBAM President & CEO Brian CalleyOriginally featured in Bridge Magazine | April 4, 2022 We have record high energy prices and somehow there is still a debate […]
More than 60% of voters support suspending both the state and federal gas tax, according to new Marketing Resource Group (MRG) polling. The March 18-21 survey of 604 likely Michigan voters […]
The House and Senate gave its blessings Thursday to a colossal water infrastructure and quality-of-life supplemental, sending the $4.8 billion spending bills to the governor’s office in the hopes the […]
Budget Conversations Moving Governor Whitmer and the Legislature came to an agreement on a $4.8B supplemental, $3.9B is federal COVID-19 recovery funds and $955.4M is from the Infrastructure Investment and […]
More than 5,500 Michigan Unemployment Insurance Agency (UIA) staff members were not given a criminal background check before they were brought on board, and according to an audit released Friday […]
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer vetoed both the $2.5 billion income tax cut and the $750 million gas tax pause Friday afternoon, writing in her letter that she wants to work with […]
Michigan’s 27.2-cent-per-gallon gasoline tax would be suspended for six months in an attempt to lower gas prices amid the price surge caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, under legislation House […]
Senate and House Republicans passed non-binding resolutions calling Wednesday on the United States and Michigan to ramp up domestic oil and gas drilling and to safeguard Line 5 oil pipeline […]
A federal appellate court has sided with taxpayers who alleged the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) violated its rules when it created a regulation requiring reporting of cash-value life insurance policies […]
