With our just-published ebook on the stimulus package “hitting the newstands,” we thought it timely to chat with one of its three authors: Steve King. “The Stimulus Package: What It Means for Growing Businesses” was written by Steve, along with Barbara Weltman and Erik Pages. The project is co-sponsored by SCORE.

Listen to the audio: (length 00:15:19)

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“We’re optimistic the economy is at or near a bottom and the general signs are things are starting to turn around,” says Steve. The Council of Economic Advisors projects the stimulus package will create 3.65 million jobs, and Steve’s own firm Emerging Research estimates that 1.6 of those will be in small to mid-sized business. “You just can’t spend this much money and provide this much tax incentives without it having an impact on the economy,” he says. “So we’re pretty confident about our jobs numbers.”  

Listen to Steve in this interview and then download “The Stimulus Package: What it Means for Growing Businesses” to learn more from Steve on government spending, Barbara on tax changes, and Erik on the "significant upgrade" at the Small Business Administration.