Small Business Administration Administrator Kelly Loeffler is projecting optimism during the holiday season for America’s small businesses. Loeffler and the SBA have pointed to rising small business optimism and consumer sentiments in December.

The Small Business Administration held an open-house presentation Saturday at the Cape Girardeau Public Library to explain available disaster assistance.

The SBA delivered over $44 billion in loans nationwide in FY2025, with $1.2 billion in the Seattle District. Rural lending rose 20%, and manufacturers gained new access to capital under the Made in America Initiative.

Small business owners and private nonprofit organizations who lost money due to Hurricane Milton last year can still apply for low interest federal disaster loans, but time is running out.

Small businesses won a record $97.95 billion in federal contracts in fiscal year 2010 or 22.7 percent of all eligible contracting dollars, a 1.2 percent increase over the previous fiscal year. It was the largest single year increase in more than five years ...