We work to elevate small business voices to advocate for the issues they care about.
Our Core Values
At Main Street Alliance, our core values drive our mission for a thriving, equitable economy. We stand against monopolies, fight for tax fairness, support capital access, advocate for the care economy, and champion universal healthcare. These values unify small businesses and uplift communities, forging a future where every entrepreneur can flourish. Together, we create a level playing field, ensuring fairness and prosperity for all. Join us in building a just, vibrant small business landscape.
Anti-Monopoly
For too long, the rules set for our economy have favored big corporations, encouraging extraction from communities instead of investment in them. We want to see adoption a fair-tax agenda that closes loopholes for large corporations, requires large corporations and the very rich to contribute equitably and invests those dollars in community essentials that help small businesses thrive. Main Street Alliance supports action to reinvigorate antitrust enforcement, including returning antitrust agencies to their original focus on market structures, strengthening merger policy, and adopting legislation to strengthen antitrust policy and break up Amazon and other tech giants.
Tax Fairness
Our work on tax fairness centers both an equitable tax code for the sake of a fair tax code and equitable taxation that no longer advantages large corporations, and also to ensure we have the revenue needed for robust public investments.
Capital Access
Small businesses thrive in places where people can live, work and prosper. Nearly half of all small business owners have experienced problems obtaining credit. The problem is especially dire for people of color and woman-owned businesses, and has been exacerbated by the COVID pandemic and relief programs. With smart public investment and fair access to capital, small businesses can contribute to economic equity and help communities thrive.
Care Economy
Healthy families are part of our bottom line. We need workplace standards that invest in businesses’ greatest asset: their employees. At some point, nearly everyone, including small business owners themselves, will need to take time away from work because of a serious personal or family illness or to care for a new child. We must ensure access to paid leave when people need time away for serious personal health or family issues so that no one has to make the choice between economic security and their families.
Visit the Small Business for Paid Leave Coalition site.
Public investment in child care would mean greater stability for small businesses and their employees. Women and people of color are disproportionately impacted by high child care costs. Businesses benefit and the economy grows when women can stay in the labor force, and expanding public investment in child care promotes greater gender and racial equity in entrepreneurship and employment.
Health Care
Small businesses need affordable, reliable health care for ourselves, our employees and our customers. But high health care costs continue to weigh on small business, putting good health care out of reach for owners and employees alike. The health insurance industry hasn’t solved this problem. It’s time for a strong universal health care system that does.