Small Business California, a
San-Francisco based nonprofit, has
released its annual survey on the
business climate in California. Of the
400 or so members that took the survey,
only 40 percent said the state was
moving in the right direction, while 42
percent said California was headed the
wrong way.
That is actually an
improvement of last year's results, when
only 30 percent said the state was
moving in the right direction.
The most pressing issue for small
business owners? That would be the
"availability and rising cost of health
care," which was rated as the highest
priority by 59 percent of respondents.
The other top issues were the
availability of quality public education
(47 percent), immigration (42 percent)
and too much regulation of small
businesses (30 percent).
The membership - or at least the
respondents to the survey - of Small
Business California skew white,
Republican and from the Bay Area, with
47 percent of respondents as
self-identified Republicans and 45
percent from the greater Bay Area. The
companies of almost half the respondents
employed less than 10 full-time people.
