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William's Fun Smart Toys in Macon.

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Macon toy shop owner 'frustrated' over lack of clarity on tariffs

GPB's Peter Biello speaks with a small business owner in Macon about how she's planning for the uncertain future created by tariffs.

May 14, 2025
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  • Peter Biello
Loeffler in Suwanee

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Small Business Adminstrator Kelly Loeffler visits Georgia to commemorate Trump's first 100 days

Small Business Administrator and former Georgia Senator Kelly Loeffler was in Georgia Monday to celebrate President Donald Trump’s first 100 days in office.

April 29, 2025
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By:
  • Sarah Kallis
Munchkin CEO Steve Dunn says tariffs will impact the availability of baby products.

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How tariffs could impact the availability of baby products

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Steven Dunn founder and CEO of Munchkin a U.S.-based company selling lifestyle products for mothers, babies and children. Dunn has written an open letter to President Trump and Congress about how tariffs could harm his business and American families.

April 18, 2025
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  • Mary Louise Kelly,
  • Brianna Scott,
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Ryan Dowdy, a former NASA food scientist, won an innovation research grant from the USDA to help further develop a meal replacement bar for first responders. His grant remains frozen, along with others, pending review.

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He once made food for astronauts. Will his new idea survive Trump's funding freeze?

Ryan Dowdy, a former NASA food scientist, won a USDA innovation grant to further develop a meal replacement bar for first responders. Trump's freeze on government awards has jeopardized those plans.

February 18, 2025
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By:
  • Andrea Hsu
Zach Huber, left, and Marsha Hill work together in the small business and nonprofit workspace at the Toledo Lucas County Public Library in Toledo, Ohio on Oct. 3, 2024. Huber was assisting Hill with creating her website for her nonprofit, Families For Fitness.

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Beyond books: How a public library in Ohio's Rust Belt is spurring economic growth

The public library in Toledo, Ohio, is one of a number across the U.S. that have become entrepreneurial hubs. Business-specialist librarians are helping aspiring small-business owners and nonprofits for free.

October 11, 2024
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  • Andrea Hsu
Gina Palmer, owner of She Salon, is flanked by Senator Jon Ossoff (right) and Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens, spoke of having to watch many of her friends close their small businesses during the Trump administration. “I have seen my friends close their businesses because they were struggling to get by,” Palmer said. “Because of the Biden-Harris administration we are making a comeback.” Photo by Donnell Suggs/The Atlanta Voice

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Biden and Trump surrogates set sights on the Black vote in Georgia

With the 2024 presidential election just a little more than four months away, surrogates for both the Biden-Harris administration and for former United States President Donald J. Trump are hitting the campaign trails throughout Georgia. 

June 27, 2024
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  • Donnell Suggs
Rabbi Peter Berg (left) interviewed Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens on May 21.

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Mayor Andre Dickens addresses Jewish community on family, safety and housing

Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens is set on making Atlanta the best place to raise a family by 2030. That’s his “North Star,” he told the Jewish community on Tuesday at the Jewish Federation in Midtown.

May 23, 2024
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  • Logan Ritchie
Business Owners with the Airport Concessioner Accelerator Program listen to a presentation on May 8, 2024

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Morehouse partners with Hartsfield-Jackson to support diverse business owners

Morehouse College is partnering with Hartsfield-Jackson Airport to teach a group of diverse Atlanta entrepreneurs how to grow their businesses to include airport concessions.

May 09, 2024
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  • Amanda Andrews
Georgia TikTok Creators Glennda Baker, Paul Tran, Lynda Truong, Josh Wikoff, and Robert Lucas met in Atlanta to speak about running their small businesses on the app on April 18, 2024.

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Congress could ban TikTok in America. Concerned Georgia creators weigh in on the proposal

TikTok Parent company ByteDance will have 165 days to sell the app if Congress moves forward with a bipartisan bill to ban it. Local creators and small business owners are concerned.

April 22, 2024
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By:
  • Amanda Andrews
Chattabrewchee Southern Brewhouse beer

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  • Business

Georgia small breweries disappointed in efforts to change century-old regulations

Georgia Senate Bill 163, aimed at providing flexibility for small breweries from regulations, stalled when the bill failed to advance out of the state Senate Regulated Industries and Utilities committee.

March 04, 2024
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  • Brittany McGee
HodgePodge Coffeehouse announced it will officially close December 31st after 12 years in business due to major rent hikes in the East Atlanta Village.

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East Atlanta business closures continue as Hodgepodge Coffeehouse plans to shutter after 12 years

Small business owners in Georgia are being priced out of their buildings by rising rent and supply costs. An East Atlanta Coffee shop is the latest local business to announce its closing.

November 10, 2023
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  • Amanda Andrews
Amazon faces a landmark federal lawsuit that accuses it of squeezing independent sellers like this Michigan company, Top Shelf Brands, which used to sell hair and beauty products on the platform. In 2022, the company stopped operating and filed for bankruptcy.

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  • Business

Amazon sellers say they made a good living — until Amazon figured it out

The federal government has sued Amazon for allegedly using its monopoly power to stamp out rivals. Now, some small businesses that sell on the marketplace reveal what it's like to depend on Amazon.

October 11, 2023
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By:
  • Dara Kerr

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Georgia's craft breweries still have bottled-up potential, lobbying group says

The Georgia Craft Brewers Guild is planning to lobby state lawmakers and the public ahead of next year's General Assembly.

July 31, 2023
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  • Orlando Montoya

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Georgia has the 7th highest rate of business failures in the U.S., new survey says

25% of Georgia businesses fail in the first year according to a survey by Lending Tree. 

May 24, 2023
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  • Sarah Kallis
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Long COVID is hurting business; workplace accommodations could help

Three years after the start of the pandemic, millions of working age people still suffer from long COVID-19 and some lawmakers and advocates, including people with long COVID, say not enough is being done to protect their well-being and ensure they can continue to be employed.

April 18, 2023
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  • Casey Quinlan
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