Op-Eds and Articles

It’s National Small Business Week and in a September 21 Morning Consult Op-ed, SBE Council president & CEO Karen Kerrigan and ACCF nonresident Senior Fellow Mike Roman express their sense of urgency about the need for Congress to act on further relief and a recovery package for America’s small businesses. As they note in the […]

In an August 18 Op-ed in Issues & Insights, SBE Council president & CEO Karen Kerrigan makes the case for Congress to end the digital divide right now. In her piece, Kerrigan writes: “The pandemic has made it abundantly clear the importance of a quality internet connection. Unfortunately, not everyone has access to high-speed broadband….Small […]

In a July 29 Morning Consult Op-ed, SBE Council president & CEO Karen Kerrigan offers the view that members of Congress participating in the U.S. House Judiciary, Subcommittee on Antitrust hearing on “Big Tech” may want to explore the significant benefits of online platforms for small businesses and our economy, particularly during the COVID-19 crisis.  […]

In a July 15 Morning Consult Op-ed, SBE Council president & CEO Karen Kerrigan warns small business owners about trolling activity that could limit the availability of the mobile devices they have come to depend on to operate their businesses, especially during COVID-19. As Kerrigan writes in the piece: Smartphones and tablets are an economic […]

In a May 13 Morning Consult Op-ed, SBE Council president & CEO Karen Kerrigan covers key changes to the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) to make it more effective for small businesses and enable them to maintain the jobs that are critical to so many local economies. As she noted in the piece: PPP needs to […]

In an April 10 Fox Business Op-ed – Coronavirus Crisis – Use Fintech’s Innovation, Speed to Help Small Business Survive – SBE Council president & CEO Karen Kerrigan urges federal government leaders and the Administration to deploy fintech as a solution to ease the backlog and friction in the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), which will […]

  In a February 19, 2020 Op-ed in Morning Consult, SBE Council president Karen Kerrigan  focuses on the issue of innovation, and how private sector investment, scientists and entrepreneurial biopharmaceutical companies are creating life-saving drugs and therapies that are leading us closer to a cure for cancer: “Every day, medical innovation and breakthroughs are cracking […]

In an August 15 Morning Consult Op-ed, SBE Council president & CEO Karen Kerrigan and health care expert and consultant Katy Talento, who formerly served as the top health policy advisor to President Donald J. Trump on the Domestic Policy Council, wrote about the ills of  “surprise medical billing” and what needs to be done […]

In an August 14 Washington Times Op-ed, SBE Council president and CEO Karen Kerrigan reviews the role that America’s small businesses play in trade, especially with China.  In addition, she highlights the effects of the trade war with China across industries, and how this is specifically hurting small businesses: “More than 75 percent of American […]

In a Morning Consult Op-ed on June 10, SBE Council president & CEO Karen Kerrigan wrote about the “sad financial story of the U. S. Postal Service.” In just the latest quarter alone, the Postal Service had a loss of $2.1 billion. For all of 2018, the agency lost $3.9 billion. As Kerrigan noted in […]