By The Huffington Post News Editors
A watchdog group charged this week that the federal Small Business Administration lobbied on behalf of large corporations, adding to criticism that the agency has been letting its definition of small get very big.
This week, the Center for Progressive Reform, a left-leaning nonprofit research and advocacy group, said the SBA has been using money earmarked for mom-and-pop business owners to lobby for corporate entities instead, the Washington Post reported.
On Thursday, Rena Steinzor, CPR‘s president, said during a congressional hearing that the SBA‘s lobbying arm had “consciously diverted its limited, taxpayer-funded resources away from helping truly small businesses.”