Small Business Policy

July 16, 2010

Minority Businesses Multiply But Still Lag Whites

The number of businesses owned by minorities increased faster than the number owned by whites, according to Census data released July 13. But minority companies' ...

July 13, 2010

The Small Business Jobs Bill: To Us, It's Meaningless

I don't have much in common with my friend Rob. Rob (I'm changing his name here so he won't yell at me) owns a 60-employee roofing company near me in Oreland, Pa. I ...

May 5, 2010

Small Contractors Await 'Cash for Caulkers'

Dan Thomsen spent a decade refurbishing and flipping houses in Los Angeles until the real estate market collapsed in 2008. With no remodeling work, the 45-year-old ...

April 22, 2010

Q&A: Gary Locke on Boosting Small Biz Exports

President Obama wants to double American exports by 2015—and is targeting small businesses to help drive that growth. Small companies make up half of private ...

March 16, 2010

ADP: Small Employers May Be Signaling Recovery

Automatic Data Processing's (ADP) sales of services to companies with 50 employees or fewer have increased since September, ADP Chief Executive Officer Gary Butler ...

March 4, 2010

Hiring by Smallest Employers May Signal Job Recovery

While forecasters expect the Labor Dept. report due out Mar. 5 to show that the U.S. economy is still shedding jobs, data from payroll companies suggest that losses at...

December 18, 2009

Entrepreneurs Keep the Local Food Movement Hot

Entrepreneurs are flocking to local food, starting businesses devoted to producing and delivering food within their communities. Just as consumers focus new attention ...

November 17, 2009

Snowe's Push to End the ARC Loan Program

Senator Olympia Snowe (R-Me.) introduced a bill Nov. 16 to repeal the small business ARC loan program, a stimulus-package initiative she helped create. Too many ...

October 21, 2009

Obama's New Push to Help Small Business Get Loans

As part of its efforts to stimulate economic recovery, the Obama Administration announced on Oct. 21 a new set of initiatives to help spur lending to small businesses....

October 6, 2009

Small Employers Struggle to Offer Health Insurance

Unlike most small employers, Boeggeman, George & Corde, a New York law firm with offices in White Plains and Albany, pays full health insurance coverage for each of ...

September 4, 2009

What Utah's Health Reform Means to Small Business

Could health reform control costs for small businesses and expand choices for workers at the same time? Utah is about to find out. In response to a sharp drop in the ...

July 16, 2009

Health-Care Proposals: The Impact on Small Business

How do the health care reform proposals stack up for entrepreneurs? After months of discussion, Congress finally released detailed plans that will have broad ...

May 4, 2009

Health-Care Debate: Issues for Small Business

With Congress set to begin debating health-care reform in earnest next month, expect to see the trials of small companies once again take center stage. The 16.8 ...

October 3, 2008

Small Business Owners React to the Bailout

As the House of Representatives was set to vote on the newly reconfigured economic bailout package (passed by the Senate on Oct. 1 and by the House on Oct. 3), small ...

May 23, 2008

Room at the Top of the SBA

As Chief Administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration, Steven Preston (BusinessWeek SmallBiz, Summer, 2006) drew both admiration and ire from the small ...

November 14, 2007

Who Is the "Small Business" President?

With presidential primaries only months away, time is running out for candidates to sway small business owners. They are coveted voters, constituents who employ half ...

August 10, 2007

Small Biz and the New Immigration Rules

Last year the Social Security Administration sent 138,000 letters to employers notifying them that certain Social Security numbers their workers submitted on their W-2...

July 23, 2007

Identity Theft: The 'Business Bust-Out'

A criminal rents space in the same building as your company. Then he applies for corporate credit cards using your firm's name. The application passes a credit check ...

July 16, 2007

Publish and Perish?

The U.S. Postal Service overhauled the way it calculates the amount that publishers must pay to mail periodicals in a change that took effect July 15. Postal officials...

July 11, 2007

The Investigative Farmer

When you run a small farm and raise dairy cows and other animals, the state agriculture inspectors can have a major impact on your business. They come around ...

July 9, 2007

After the $54M Dry Cleaner Lawsuit

Advocates for so-called tort reform rejoiced when a Washington, D.C., judge ruled last month in favor of a family-owned dry cleaner fending off a $54 million lawsuit ...

June 11, 2007

Immigrants: Key U.S. Business Founders

Entrepreneurs born overseas play a key role in creating new companies in the crucial fields of science, technology, and engineering, but most of these immigrants do ...

May 23, 2007

Startups Across America

The rate of business creation in the U.S. held steady at 290 adults out of every 100,000 creating new businesses each month between 2005 and 2006, suggesting that ...

April 26, 2007

Back in Biz, Thanks to Vocal Customers

Back in October, Michigan farmer Richard Hebron and Family Farms Co-op, which he manages, were the targets of a sting operation involving an undercover agent, about a ...

April 24, 2007

Changing Concerns for Entrepreneurs

Small-business owners are optimistic about the future of their own businesses, even though they think the economy on the whole is getting worse. And perhaps not ...

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