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Small Business Owners
Report Record Confidence in
Latest US Chamber Survey

Article by Thaddeus Swanek, Senior Writer and Editor,
Strategic Communications, US Chamber of Commerce

Data from the 2019 Q4 MetLife optimism about their own business health, the highest
& U.S. Chamber of Commerce level recorded in the Index since it began in 2017.
Small Business Index (Index)
indicates that employers are In addition, the number of small business owners
experiencing record high levels of who have a positive outlook on their local economies
confidence about their businesses has increased three percentage points from Q3 to
and financial future. The overall 59%. Not only are small business owners confident in
Index score increased again this what they see as healthy local economies, more than
quarter to 71.3, up 0.6 points from half (57%) believe that the U.S. economy is in good
Q3, marking the highest number health, continuing an overall positive trend since Q1
since the Index’s inception. The 2019 (53%). Midwest small businesses rank the most
survey of 1,000 small business optimistic concerning the national economy with 62%
owners shows that more than 71% of business owners believing the economy to be in
currently have a “strong outlook” on good health.
the small business environment and

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