Anytime a major national Spanish-language television network promotes the vitality of America’s core private sector it warms our heart. So when we heard José Díaz-Balart, anchorman of Noticiero Telemundo, tout the role small businesses play in generating job opportunities, well, we wanted to be the first to say “Bravo”!
This past National Mom and Pop Business Owners Day (March 29) Díaz-Balart underscored that these businesses “…are small, but they play an important role in stimulating the economy”. The feature piece profiled several small businesses and their owners, highlighting the huge benefits small businesses provide. “The small businesses are the cogs that run our economy” declared one of those interviewed for the segment.
A small business is defined as an enterprise that has fewer than 500 employees. There are close to 30 million small businesses operating in America, and over half of the 120 million in the U.S. labor force works in one of those small businesses. Not to mention the fact that nearly 1/3 of new American small businesses are owned by first-generation immigrant entrepreneurs. But small businesses are also constantly under attack by a growing government that threatens their sustainability.
Kudos to Telemundo, for being the only national broadcast network newscast to recognize the significance of National Mom and Pop Business Owners Day. Now, as the opportunity arises, if Telemundo also goes on to examine and expose the government’s role in imposing excessive taxation, onerous regulations and burdensome mandates that are crippling many small businesses, count on us to be the first to heartily applaud more of this kind of all too rare, pro-private enterprise, jobs-generating reporting.
