Small Business Doing Even Better Now on Job Creation
According to a Wall Street Journal story last week, "Smaller Firms Lead the Way in Hiring", the small businesses of this nation "are hiring at a faster rate than their larger brethren after lagging...
View ArticleKansas experiment: 'Cautionary tale'
Republican economic hocus pocus doesn’t pan out. The skewing of America is the screwing of Americans. Kansas is a case in point. Governor Brownback is a lawyer politician who has accomplished nothing...
View ArticleSmall-business jobs on the rebound
For small businesses in South Florida, jobs are almost back to where they were before the recession.lRelated Palm Beach County NewsPalm Beach County to help companies pay for new employeesSee all...
View ArticleJobs plentiful for South Dakota teens
Facebook Follow @washtimes Will John Kerry's talks in Paris bring the Ukraine crisis any closer to an end? Login to Vote View results SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) - For the vast majority of South Dakota...
View ArticleSmall business insurance program through Affordable Care Act delayed in S.C.
South Carolina, and 17 other states have been allowed to delay until 2016 at the earliest the implementation of a major component of the Affordable Care Act designed for small businesses and their...
View ArticleWith So Many Job Openings, Why So Little Hiring?
An odd puzzle is taking shape in the labor market: Over the past three years, the number of has risen almost 50 percent, but actual hiring has gone up by less than 5 percent. Companies are advertising...
View ArticleSmall firms key to Indy Chamber membership drop
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The recession's impact on small businesses and side effects of the federal health care overhaul are cutting into a key Indianapolis business group's membership. The Indianapolis...
View ArticlePeople Who Eat Small, Frequent Meals Tend To Eat Better & Weigh Less
By Shereen Lehman (Reuters Health) - Adults who had multiple small meals every day tended to eat better, and weight less, than those who had fewer but larger meals, in a recent study. People eating...
View ArticleWhy the nation and NC need small banks
The United States is suffering from a severe over-concentration of banking assets. Currently, 50 percent of all banking assets and deposits in America are held by just 10 banks. This has made those...
View ArticleDodd-Frank is Crippling Small Lenders (US House of Representatives Committee...
(Source: US House of Representatives Committee on Small Business) Dodd-Frank is Crippling Small Lenders WASHINGTON - The House Committee on Small Business Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Tax and...
View ArticlePeter Orszag: Why so little hiring with so many jobs open?
New York: An odd puzzle is taking shape in the labor market: Over the past three years, the number of job openings has risen almost 50 percent, but actual hiring has gone up by less than 5 percent....
View ArticleWhere The Best Job Opportunities Are Now
Looking to make a big career move? Your hottest opportunity might be on Main Street or in an office park near you. Small and midsize firms are finally hiring again, according to recent research. The...
View ArticleBig Business Bows to Small Business Increasing Hiring
Chris Yura says it took about six months before he could afford to hire the first employee for the clothing company he started in June 2009. SustainU Clothing now has 20 workers, about half part-time,...
View ArticlePanel: Debt, government regulations hinder North Carolina’s small businesses...
Small business leaders and advocates sat down with U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan Monday afternoon at the Mint Museum Uptown to discuss the hurdles facing the state’s entrepreneurial community and how those...
View ArticleMiddle Market Takes Center Stage at the U.S. Chamber (US Chamber of Commerce)
(Source: US Chamber of Commerce) There's considerable focus on small businesses from policymakers in Washington. But what about companies that are slightly larger than small businesses, but slightly...
View ArticleSmall businesses deliver a much-needed economic jolt, add 74,000 jobs in...
The nation’s smallest employers posted the largest number of job gains last month, according to a new hiring survey, providing much-needed fuel for an economic recovery that continues to sputter. Small...
View ArticleProgress Made, Work to Be Done
In case you haven't noticed, this is National Small Business Week (Small Business Week). It has been so designated by the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA). In announcing Small Business Week,...
View ArticleNC jobless rate falls to 6.9 percent but job creation lags
North Carolina’s unemployment rate took a sharp turn downward in December, suggesting an rapid economic turnaround, but economists warned that the statistics are distorting a more sober reality. The...
View ArticleDodd-Frank Socks Main Street with Devastating One-Two Punch (US Chamber of...
(Source: US Chamber of Commerce) Above the Fold What you need to know about policy that affects the business community The Dodd-Frank law was supposed to mend our financial system and strengthen our...
View ArticleRobbins Geller Takes IBM and Alibaba to Task
Seven years later, we are still recovering from a recession that left many Americans without jobs, and with what still is for some, a destitute future. For what seemed like years, politicians, banks,...
View ArticleSouth Carolina Floods Are A Small-Business Owner's 'Nightmare'
Last week, LaBrasca's Pizza in Columbia, South Carolina, was gearing up to throw its 50th anniversary party. Today, it's facing the possibility of a going-out-of-business party. The restaurant is one...
View ArticleThe 2014 U.S. Bank Small Business Annual Survey Finds The ACA Is Causing...
(Source: IFA - International Franchise Association) FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Jenna Weisbord, 202-662-0766 jweisbord@franchise.org WASHINGTON, April 24-Today, the Wall Street Journal reported that...
View Article1-in-3 Small Businesses Spend at Least 2 Weeks a Year Dealing with Federal...
(Source: US Chamber of Commerce) As a Tax Day post mortem, this Wall Street Journal tweet sums up how complex the tax code has gotten over the decades. "In 1913, the 1040 form had a single page of...
View ArticleSmall Businesses Are Going on a Hiring Binge
(Bloomberg) -- Sterling Risk Advisors, an Atlanta-based property and casualty insurance broker with 86 employees, has added 13 workers since June and will probably hire 10 to 15 more this year. “We are...
View ArticleMake 2014 the Year of Small Business
By all accounts, Small Business Saturday was a smashing success. Now, in order to kick the American economy into over drive, it's time to convert it from an annual event to a year-long one. That is why...
View ArticleUS small business owners finally have something to be optimistic about
Increased revenues, rising wages and better access to loans for many small businesses leads optimism to a seven-year high, according to a new Gallup poll...
View ArticleFed chair notes that more than half of jobs added during recovery came from...
Published May 15, 2014Associated Press Facebook0 Twitter0 Gplus0 WASHINGTON – Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen is spotlighting the fact that U.S. small businesses have accounted for more than half...
View Article>Yellen: Small businesses are driving job growth
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen is spotlighting the fact that U.S. small businesses have accounted...
View ArticleYellen: Small businesses are driving job growth
WASHINGTON -- Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen is spotlighting the fact that U.S. small businesses have accounted for more than...
View ArticleHesitant no more: Arizona small business poised to flex hiring muscle
Small business lays claim to the highest rates of job creation, but that crown has passed to large employers when 2014 came to a close, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. In data covering 10...
View ArticleTo spur job creation, bring on supply-side economics
The Congressional Budget Office says unemployment won't drop to 5.5 percent - the benchmark for "full employment" - until 2024. That implies a 15-year recovery from the Great Recession (which...
View ArticleHealth-care changes chill businesses’ expansion plans
COLUMBIA, SC — It’s the lunch rush at the Lizard’s Thicket restaurant on Garner’s Ferry Road and the wait staff is hauling out armloads of Southern home cookin’ — salmon patties and mac and cheese,...
View ArticleOne CEO's Quote Sums Up Resilience Of Flood-Drenched South Carolina
After the storm comes the sun. The chief executive of the South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday urged workers to return to their jobs in hopes of kickstarting the region's...
View ArticleStop big increases in health insurance premiums by making sure all workers...
Open enrollment for health insurance through the marketplaces has now started. Every citizen is required by law to have some form of health insurance with exceptions for certain low-income individuals....
View ArticleColumbia's 79-Year Flood
Thanks to all who have checked up on me to see how I have survived the flooding in Columbia. My family and I are fine. Unfortunately, many residents and businesses fell victims to the onslaught of...
View ArticleAn Unbelievable Achievement in the Fight Against Offshore Drilling
How hard is it to get 100 percent agreement or participation on anything? It's never done. Never! Well, that remarkable achievement has been accomplished and it's not on some non-controversial issue....
View ArticleHeadlines tout job gains, ignore Self Employed & Participation
Once again the Obama Administration and major media have touted the temporary improvement in the cyclical jobs growth. Reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) on January 8, 2016, the December...
View ArticleThe Myth of H-1B Job Creation
Every day brings new headlines, ignored by the Washington press corps, of U.S. workers losing their livelihoods to cheap H1-B visa replacements. Just this week, Computerworld reported: "Fury and fear...
View ArticleNation’s small business owners split on whether the government should shut down
Down to the final days of the nation’s current spending plan, with negotiations over a new one at a standstill, nearly half of small business owners are in favor of shutting the government down,...
View Article5 Conservative Talking Points Feel The Bern
The 2016 Democratic primary season has officially started off with a bang following the Iowa Caucus Monday evening. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Sec. Hillary Clinton are in a statistical tie, 49.6...
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