Forecast On Main Street: Clear Skies
Citing increased liquidity and plans for expansion, small businesses started 2012 off on the right foot, according to a quarterly index from Capital O...
Citing increased liquidity and plans for expansion, small businesses started 2012 off on the right foot, according to a quarterly index from Capital O...
Reuters | Posted 05.08.2012
(Reuters) - Hiring by small businesses slowed in April, but there was an increase in the number of employers planning to create new jobs and those rep...
AP | JOYCE M. ROSENBERG | Posted 05.03.2012
NEW YORK -- Ken Levien has no plans to hire more people for his real estate project management company in New York. He says his business has only abou...
Reuters | Posted 04.30.2012
(Reuters) - U.S. small business hiring slowed considerably in the April and employees saw a reduction in their hours, an independent survey showed on ...
AP | JOYCE M. ROSENBERG | Posted 04.19.2012
NEW YORK -- Don't be misled by reports that inflation is tame. For small business owners, it's a threat to profits and expansion plans. An 8 percent ...
The Huffington Post | Alicia Ciccone | Posted 04.13.2012
There's more good news on Main Street, it seems. More than half (56 percent) of business owners feel good about their prospects for the next six month...
Reuters | Posted 04.05.2012
(Reuters) - Small businesses created the most jobs in March in about a year, a survey showed on Thursday, bolstering expectations of a fourth straight...
Reuters | Posted 03.27.2012
(Reuters) - Small business confidence rose to its highest level in a year in the first quarter with more firms planning to ramp up hiring as the econo...
Reuters | Posted 03.02.2012
(Reuters) - Hiring at small U.S. businesses edged higher in February as the number of firms laying off workers fell to its lowest since 2007, although...
Reuters | Posted 02.14.2012
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Confidence among small U.S. business owners hit a four year-high in January and many are having trouble filling vacant position...
The Huffington Post | Alicia Ciccone | Posted 02.08.2012
Twenty-two percent of small-business owners plan on increasing the total number of jobs at their company in the next year, according to a new Wells Fa...
Reuters | Posted 01.30.2012
(Reuters) - Small business payrolls grew at a slower rate in January and wages fell, an independent survey showed on Monday, suggesting the pace of ov...
The Huffington Post | Alicia Ciccone | Posted 01.13.2012
What unemployment problem? Fifty-two percent of American employers are having difficulty finding suitable talent to fill job openings, reports a surve...
The Huffington Post | Alicia Ciccone | Posted 01.04.2012
Small businesses added 55,000 new jobs in December, according to the latest Intuit Small Business Employment Index. The report surveyed 72,000 emp...
Posted 11.29.2011
Small businesses would hire and invest more if Washington offered a clearer idea about plans for taxes and government spending, researchers at the...
Reuters | Posted 01.29.2012
(Reuters) - U.S. small businesses created 55,000 jobs in November but employees worked fewer hours and earned less money, according to a survey on Tue...
John Arensmeyer | Posted 01.01.2012
Small employers are struggling; lack of demand and weak sales are part of it, but one of the key barriers to their success -- hindering their ability to help remedy the economy's malaise -- is the inaccessibility of credit.
Posted 11.13.2011
Small businesses in the United States became less confident in the economy's future for the sixth straight month in August following a bruising sp...
Karen Leland | Posted 11.12.2011
Faced with the daily task of deciding everything -- from what social media buttons should be above the fold on our home web page to who we should invite to the Friday meeting -- there are some ways we small business owners can maximize our power to choose while protecting our brain's much-needed mojo.
The Huffington Post | Janean Chun | Posted 11.06.2011
Despite the general gloom and doom about jobs, almost half of small businesses say they're planning to hire within the next six months, outpacing thos...
Reuters | Posted 10.29.2011
(Reuters) - Hiring by small businesses slowed in August and employers reduced hours, an independent survey showed on Sunday, suggesting the recent sto...
Reuters | Posted 10.04.2011
(Reuters) - Small business owners cut jobs in July for the second straight month because of weak housing starts and meager spending on services, the...
Reuters | Posted 05.25.2011
CHICAGO (By Deborah L. Cohen): Extending Bush-era tax breaks won't be enough to encourage business owners like Brad Schulman to begin hiring. "They'v...
24/7 Wall St. | Posted 05.25.2011
A new Gallup poll shows that "The Wells Fargo/Gallup Small Business Index -- which measures small-business owners' perceptions of six measures of thei...
The Huffington Post | Alicia Ciccone | Posted 05.24.2012