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As the President and Congress debate the merits of the so-called “Buffett Rule” this month, National Association for the Self-Employed (NASE) President and CEO Kristie Arslan is calling on both the President and Congress to focus more on the “Baffle Rule,” or removing baffling tax rules impacting millions of Americans [...]


Widmeyer client The National Association for the Self-Employed (NASE) has appeared in national stories in Bloomberg Businessweek, Forbes and the Yahoo! Small Business channel over the past week as an expert on crowdfunding – an emerging online business trend that enables individuals to fund businesses by pooling donations through websites that match donors with small [...]


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Widmeyer Power PA Q&A: NASE President & CEO Kristie Arslan
By Ben Finzel, Senior Vice President

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27TH, 2012

Economic issues have dominated the news in recent years as the nation continues to respond to “the Great Recession.” But Americans have always been resourceful in the face of adversity [...]


As Congressional leaders debate the debt-ceiling limit, Widmeyer worked to secure the lead interview segment for Kristie Arslan of the National Association for the Self-Employed (NASE) on Sunday, July 10th’s MSNBC’s “Your Business“. “Your Business” is MSNBC’s premiere small business show. She argued that the self-employed community – which represents 78 percent of the small business [...]


With a compromise reached between President Obama and Congressional leaders over extending the Bush-era tax cuts, Widmeyer Communications worked to secure the inclusion of the National Association for the Self-Employed’s (NASE) support for the deal in a Wall Street Journal story. In addition, Widmeyer helped secure placement of an op-ed by NASE’s Executive Director Kristie [...]


With small businesses still feeling the economic pinch, Widmeyer secured an appearance for the National Association for the Self-Employed (NASE) on the Job Wars segment of The Dylan Ratigan Show on MSNBC. Kristie Arslan, executive director of NASE, discussed how small businesses are struggling in this turbulent economy while also highlighting their economic contributions to [...]


After Senate passage of the Small Business Jobs Act, Widmeyer secured an op-ed in Roll Call for the National Association for the Self-Employed (NASE) timed to coincide with the legislation returning to the House. Kristie Arslan of NASE urged the House to take the quick and decisive action needed get the measure to the President’s [...]


Widmeyer Communications secured an appearance for Kristie Arslan of the National Association for the Self-Employed (NASE) on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal during the Labor Day weekend. Arslan took advantage of Labor Day to discuss the important contributions of our nation’s self-employed and micro-businesses to our economy. She also took questions from callers about a variety of [...]


Kristie Arslan, executive director of the legislative offices of the National Association for the Self-Employed (NASE), a Widmeyer client, was featured on MSNBC’s “Your Business” on Sunday, June 6. Arslan discussed the negative impact of changes to IRS Form 1099 on the self-employed.


Widmeyer’s Public Affairs team placed an op-ed by Kristie Arslan, executive director of the legislative offices of the National Association for the Self-Employed (NASE) in Politico on Friday, March 19 [...]