Economic and Social Justice: Micro-enterprises & Economic Development
The Legal Assistance to Micro-Enterprise Project provides indigent entrepreneurs with legal services including legal advice and education on relevant legal topics for starting, maintaining, or expanding micro-enterprises."
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Federal Agencies
- Small Business Administration (SBA) aids, counsels, assists, and protects the interests of small businesses
- Online Women’s Business Centerprovides training, technical assistance, credit, and other financial services to promote the growth of women-owned businesses
- Sitio en la Red del Centro de Negocios para Mujeresla version en espanol
- Consumer Product Safety Commissionworks to protect the public against unreasonable risks of injury associated with consumer products
- Business Informationprovides information about safety standards for CPSC-regulated products
- Department of Labor
- Wagesa guide to federal wage and overtime pay laws
- OSHA Small Business Initiativehelps small businesses to establish safety and health programs and to find and fix hazards that may cause workplace injuries or illnesses
- Environmental Protection Agency
- Small Business Gatewayprovides information about EPA regulations affecting small businesses
- Food and Drug Administrationregulates food, drugs, medical devices, animal feed and drugs, cosmetics, and radiation-emitting products
- U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)
- Office of Business Liaison, 1-800-357-2099 educates and assists the business community with immigration-related issues
- Internal Revenue Service
- Small Business and Self-employed TAX Center
- Tax Law Questionsprovides resources for business and personal tax questions
- U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)'s Microenterprise Innovation Projectprovides technical and financial assistance to microenterprise entrepreneurs and supports research and training on the best practices in microenterprise development and finance
The Economic and Social Justice: Micro-enterprises & Economic Development Team
Micro-enterprises are small businesses in which the entrepreneur is the sole employee or has fewer than 5 employees; the business is home-based or operated from a garage or truck; the entrepreneur has no access to capital through traditional loans; and the business is the sole source of income for the entrepreneur.
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