{"id":1473996,"date":"2022-05-13T08:29:45","date_gmt":"2022-05-13T12:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1473996"},"modified":"2022-05-13T08:30:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-13T12:30:00","slug":"poll-small-businesses-struggling-to-survive-in-bidens-economy-optimism-hits-all-time-low","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/poll-small-businesses-struggling-to-survive-in-bidens-economy-optimism-hits-all-time-low\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll: Small Businesses Struggling to Survive in Biden\u2019s Economy, Optimism Hits All-Time Low"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpoll-small-businesses-struggling-to-survive-in-bidens-economy-optimism-hits-all-time-low%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1473996&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Small business owners are increasingly pessimistic about U.S. economic conditions and overwhelmingly support an expansion of domestic fossil fuel infrastructure, the latest polling data showed.<\/p>\n<p>Just 27% of small business owners agreed the economy was in \u201cgood\u201d or \u201cexcellent\u201d condition, according to a Job Creators Network Foundation poll released Friday and shared with The Daily Caller News Foundation. The figure represented the lowest economic optimism among small business owners since the group began the poll a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>The poll found that small business owners who employed fewer than 20 workers were the most negative about the economy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile the Biden administration is touting a \u2018small business boom\u2019 and misdirecting the public, our polling shows without a doubt that Main Street is suffering,\u201d Job Creators Network Foundation president Elaine Parker said in a statement shared with TheDCNF.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSmall businesses are having a difficult time grappling with persistently high inflation, disruptive supply chain problems, and labor shortages\u2014not to mention the threat of higher taxes and government red tape,\u201d she continued. \u201cIt\u2019s time for the White House to stop playing the blame game and take some responsibility.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/12\/democrats-inflation-big-oil-price-gouging\/\">(RELATED: Dems\u2019 Favorite Inflation Talking Point Just Got Debunked In Epic Fashion)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A whopping 90% of small business owners said the U.S. should boost manufacturing and decrease reliance on foreign imports to create jobs, improve the economy and address domestic supply chain issues, according to the poll, while 57% of respondents added that they would need to soon make \u201csignificant operational adjustments\u201d to stay afloat.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7428587\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7428587\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Joe Biden arrives for an event on May 11 in Kankakee, Illinois. (Scott Olson\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Consumer Price Index, a key metric used by the Department of Labor (DOL) to measure inflation, surged 8.3% over the 12-month period ending April, federal data released Wednesday <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/11\/inflation-consumer-price-index-labor-department-joe-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">showed<\/a>. Excluding March, the number was the largest increase since January 1982.<\/p>\n<p>A separate inflation metric that tracks wholesale prices skyrocketed 11% year-over-year in April, down from the record 11.5% increase reported in March, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bls.gov\/news.release\/ppi.nr0.htm\">according<\/a> to a DOL report Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Businesses also continue to struggle with a widespread worker shortage; in March, job openings <a href=\"https:\/\/data.bls.gov\/pdq\/SurveyOutputServlet\">hit<\/a> an all-time record of 11.5 million. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/10\/joe-biden-says-policies-help-not-hurt-inflation\/\">(RELATED: Biden Says His Policies \u2018Help, Not Hurt\u2019 Inflation Problem)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Job Creators Network Foundation poll also showed that 77% of small business owners support expanding domestic oil and natural gas pipeline infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration has canceled or delayed <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/26\/biden-administration-fish-wildlife-service-natural-gas-pipeline-kentucky\/\">several<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/03\/biden-administration-mountain-valley-pipeline-natural-gas\/\">pipelines<\/a> including the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/02\/biden-administration-keystone-xl-pipeline-economic-report\/\">Keystone XL<\/a> crude oil pipeline since taking power in January 2021. The administration has also <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/12\/joe-biden-administration-oil-gas-lease-sales\/\">canceled<\/a> multiple oil and gas lease sales, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/30\/joe-biden-budget-interior-department-offshore-oil-gas\/\">dragged its feet<\/a> on a new offshore leasing plan and pushed myriad burdensome <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/11\/backdoor-environmental-regulation-green-new-deal-joe-biden\/\">environmental regulations<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The first Job Creators Network Foundation poll <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/27\/small-business-poll-job-creators-network-economic-recovery-pandemic\/\">released<\/a> in May 2021 showed that 35% of small business owners predicted Biden\u2019s economic and tax policies would help them while 42% said the president\u2019s policies would hurt them.<\/p>\n<p>The poll surveyed 500 small businesses from April 5 to April 28 and had a margin of error of 4.4%.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Small business owners are increasingly pessimistic about U.S. economic conditions and overwhelmingly support an expansion of domestic fossil fuel infrastructure, the latest polling data showed.Just 27% of small business owners<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":489,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1473996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1473996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/489"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1473996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1473996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1473996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1473996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1473996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}