The Job-Generation Controversy: The Economic Myth of Small Business

This text analyzes the role of small business in the US economy. It debunks the job-generation myth, highlights the increased job insecurity and income disparity for workers in small businesses, and explains why these companies do not deserve the preferential treatment they recieve.
This book exposes how the Small Business Administration (SBA) and the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB), using erroneous data, have developed and perpetuated the belief that "small business creates all the new jobs". It shows further that, since the early 1990s, this belief has become a mantra for allowing the SBA and NBIF to lobby effectively for preferential treatment such as low-interest loans and exemption from mandated employee benefits and worker safety regulations.