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Clark: 65% of small businesses feel healthy, but distrust national economy

Suzanne Clark · How optimism fuels the economy (U.S. Chamber of Commerce CEO Suzanne Clark) | Masters of Scale · Apr 26, 2024 · at 2:20

Suzanne Clark, CEO of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, discusses the divergence between business owners' confidence in their own local operations versus their perception of the broader national economy.

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“We're just out of the field with this quarterly poll we do with MetLife. 65% of small businesses said they feel really good about the health of their business. 65%. That same group of people, only 32% of them, felt good about the health of the overall economy.”

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The claim, plainly

A quarterly poll by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and MetLife found that 65% of small businesses felt good about their own business health, while only 32% felt good about the health of the overall economy.

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Assessment

The MetLife & U.S. Chamber of Commerce Small Business Index report for Q1 2024 (released on April 2, 2024, based on survey data collected from January 26 to February 12, 2024) confirms both cited figures: exactly 65% of small business owners rated the overall health of their own business as good, while 32% rated the health of the overall U.S. economy as good.

The MetLife & U.S. Chamber of Commerce Small Business Index for Q1 2024 found that 65% of surveyed small businesses reported the overall health of their own business was good.
The same Q1 2024 report found that 32% of small business owners rated the overall U.S. economy as being in good health.
Independent reporting in April 2024 from regional chambers and industry publications corroborated the 65% and 32% survey metrics.

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[1] detroitchamber.com [2] detroitchamber.com [3] beautymatter.com [4] uschamber.com [5] uschamber.com [6] piawest.com

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