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Will Business Owners Decide The Election?

The Huffington Post | Nate C. Hindman | Posted 05.24.2012

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Small-business owners are leaning right leading up to the U.S. presidential election. Forty-nine percent of business owners plan to vote for presumpti...

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Obama Buys Big Hoagie (PHOTO)

Posted 05.16.2012

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Obama held a small business roundtable at the Taylor Gourmet sandwich shop in the U Street neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Wednesday. The president o...

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What's In 'Startup America' For You?

The Huffington Post | Alicia Ciccone | Posted 04.02.2012

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Having trouble digesting all of the political jargon surrounding President Obama's Startup America Legislative Agenda? If you're a small-business owne...

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What Exactly Does Obama's Small-Business Agenda Propose?

The Huffington Post | Janean Chun | Posted 02.01.2012

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President Barack Obama sent a small-business proposal to Congress Tuesday, calling on bipartisan support for small businesses. The Startup America Leg...

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Obama Returns Focus To Small-Business Tax Breaks

Reuters | Posted 01.31.2012

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama sought on Tuesday to revive a plan to give small businesses tax breaks and help start-up firms, ide...

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State Of The Union: What Was In It For Small Business?

HuffingtonPost.com | Janean Chun | Posted 01.25.2012

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President Obama may not have spent much time addressing small businesses by name during his State of the Union on Tuesday night, but much of his speec...

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Who Are Small-Business Owners Planning To Vote For?

The Huffington Post | Nate C. Hindman | Posted 01.24.2012

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It's no wonder the presidential candidates praise the nation's entrepreneurs as often as they can: The people who run small businesses or receive a pa...

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What Does Obama's Consolidation Plan Mean For The SBA?

The Huffington Post | Janean Chun | Posted 01.13.2012

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Is President Obama's announcement that he plans to consolidate the Small Business Administration with five other government offices into one agency an...

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Republican Candidates Are Ignoring America's Chief Job Creators

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 03.11.2012

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If anybody running for president really wants to create jobs and bolster the economy, they're going to need a plan that involves America's 28 million small businesses.

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Questioning The SBA: Karen Mills Fields Questions From Our Board Of Directors

HuffingtonPost.com | Rod Kurtz | Posted 08.26.2011

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As administrator of the Small Business Administration, Karen Mills serves as President Obama's primary ambassador to small-business owners, a constitu...

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Why The President Is Not Anti-Business

Gene Marks | Posted 08.15.2011

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Is President Obama anti-business? Writing as a small business owner and (hold on to your hats) a Republican I say: of course not.

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Obama's Small Business Plan To Come Up Short, White House Concedes

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK -- After spending much of last year relentlessly touting the benefits of a proposed $30 billion fund that would jumpstart bank lending to sma...

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The Obama Tax Deal: 5 Things You Need To Know

The Huffington Post/AOL Small Business | Barbara Weltman | Posted 08.04.2011

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The first major deal between President Obama and Congressional Republicans -- an $858 billion package of tax cuts and unemployment benefits -- has gen...

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The Small Business Jobs Act: 5 Things You Need To Know

The Huffington Post/AOL Small Business | Barbara Weltman | Posted 08.09.2011

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The Small Business Jobs Act, which was signed into law by President Obama in September, contains $12 billion in tax breaks for businesses. There are n...

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Obama Urges Action On Middle Class Tax Cuts In Speech On Economy

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is applauding two Republican senators who voted for a small business bill and says he'd welcome that kind of...

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Obama's Small-Business Program Could Create $300 Billion In Credit for Small Businesses

Bloomberg | Laura Keeley and David Henry | Posted 05.25.2011

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President Barack Obama is on the verge of creating as much as $300 billion in credit for small businesses as bankers raise doubt about whether there's...

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Small Business Confidence Deteriorates; Economy 'Mediocre At Best'

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 05.25.2011

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Small business confidence plummeted last month by the largest amount since the height of the financial crisis as lackluster economic growth and anemic...

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Obama Small Business Lending Bill Headed To Congress

AP | MARTIN CRUTSINGER | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has sent Congress a proposal to create a $30 billion support program to unfreeze credit for the nation's s...

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Small Business On Obama Agenda For Buffalo Visit

AP | JULIE PACE | Posted 05.25.2011

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BUFFALO, N.Y. — President Barack Obama asked Congress on Thursday to act quickly on a new round of jobs legislation, arguing that "fancy formula...

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Obama: Shift $30 Billion From TARP Funds To Community Banks

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein and Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

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President Barack Obama used his State of the Union address to unveil a plan to get billions of dollars out of the highly unpopular TARP bank-bailout p...

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Small Business Taxes: Much Ado About Nothing

Tim Berry | Posted 05.25.2011

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All the blather about Obama's small business taxes signifies nothing except perhaps how few non-business opinion leaders know what they're talking about when they talk about small business.

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What's Happening at the SBA? Small Businesses Don't Know

Susan Wilson Solovic | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Small Business Administration was founded to strengthen the overall economy by helping small businesses start and grow. Does the SBA actually do what it's supposed to do?

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Obama's Windfall Taxes Shift: First Broken Promise?

Posted 05.25.2011

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The Obama team's decision to drop the idea of forcing oil and natural gas companies to pay a tax on their windfall profits has caused a firestorm amon...

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Holy Crap, A Candidate Answers a Question (a.k.a A Conversation with Joe the Plumber)

Kim Mance | Posted 05.25.2011

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As a former Hillary supporter and long-time Obama-skeptic-turned-no-other-choice-but-still-a-little-tentative-supporter, this made my day.

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