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Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley outlined plans Monday to help small businesses and increase jobs by expanding access to credit and providing businesses with incentives to hire the unemployed. The governor discussed three initiatives he will bring before... Small business - Business - Maryland - Martin O'Malley - Business and Economy
(AP:WASHINGTON) President Barack Obama is setting out fresh plans to reinvigorate the U.S. economy, focusing on incentives to small businesses and hiring to bring down the country's 10 percent unemployment rate.
An NHBR awards program that honors small-business owners.
LaGuardia Community College will be the first educational institution to reap the benefits of Goldman Sachs’ $500 million small business initiative.
President Obama is set to deliver a speech on the economy today at 11:15am ET at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., where, according to a White House official, he "will announce three key priorities for targeted investment-including a series of steps to help small businesses grow and hire new staff, an additional investment in infrastructure to continue modernizing our highways and ...
NEEDHAM, Mass. , Dec. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- RatePoint, Inc., a leading provider of customer feedback and online reputation management services, announces that its email marketing tool now includes full integration into social networking sites Facebook and Twitter . Reflecting small-business adoption of social media, 33 percent of RatePointâs customers already have adopted Twitter integration with ...
In pitch to get more Americans back to work, Obama plans to help small businesses, update transportation infrastructure and create energy-efficient homes.
Governor suggests 6,700 Marylanders could be hired in a year Gov. Martin O'Malley, heading into an election year at a time of high unemployment, told a crowd of small-business owners Monday that he will ask the General Assembly to approve a $3,000 tax credit for companies hiring jobless Marylanders.
Small-business owners are pessimistic about the economy and its impact on their companies, reports the National Federation of Independent Business.
President Barack Obama is expected to unveil a plan today to help small businesses grow, improve bridges and highways and make homes energy-efficient.
CAPE CORAL, Fla. , Dec. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Unlimited Priorities Corporation , a company specializing in support for organizations within the information industry, has been selected for the 2009 Best of Business Award, Management Consulting Services, by the Small Business Commerce Association (SBCA). SBCA is a San Francisco -based private sector entity providing tactical guidance on the many ...
Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama today will propose upgrading infrastructure, promoting home-energy efficiency and helping small businesses as ways to spur job growth, an administration official said.
RICHARDSON, Texas , Dec. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Custom Credit Systems (CCS), a provider of integrated, end-to-end, credit processing and maintenance systems for small business and commercial loan processing, announced today the results of its 2009 State of Commercial Lending Survey. Key executives at leading commercial lending institutions were surveyed to garner a better understanding of the current ...
NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- Small business owners grew a bit more pessimistic in November. The Small Business Optimism Index decreased 0.8 point to 88.3 last month from October, reported the National Federation of Independent Business in a press release Tuesday.
WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- In a key speech Tuesday, U.S. President Barack Obama will focus on three main priorities: infrastructure investment, aid for small businesses and a new program to help Americans make their homes more energy- efficient.
Gov. David A. Paterson last week received the final report from his 60-member Small Business Task Force, chaired by Bill Grinker, former president of Seedco Financial, a national community development financial institution.
