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Experts say the city’s rising levies and property taxes have taken their biggest toll on its nearly 200,000 small-business owners. “The city extracts a very high cost on small businesses,” said Manhattan Institute senior fellow Steve Malanga. “The b...
Small-business owners haven’t seen much improvement in the U.S. economy and more are expected to cut jobs instead of adding them over the next three months, a National Federation of Independent Business survey shows.
Rhonda Fisher, Mississippi Small Business Administration supervisory lender relations specialist, shares information with the audience on “How to Apply” for small business loans at the Business Owner Seminar Wednesday at the Clarksdale Civic Auditorium. Meanwhile, Joan Richardson, with Business Writing Services of Marks, is assisted with her seating by Ward 3 Commissioner Buster Moton ...
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - The U.S. Small Business Administration has approved a disaster declaration for 11 southern Indiana counties hit by a wave of severe storms in August.
Michael Clayton, president and CEO of the Better Business Bureau of Southeast Texas, spoke to members of the Dayton Chamber of Commerce during their monthly luncheon on Nov. 3 on how small business owners can have a better business by building relationships on integrity and trust.
NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--Small business owners grew slightly more optimistic in October, but not enough to turn job growth positive.
Regarding that year-end bonus, for many -- forget about it. Only 31 percent of employers responding to a survey said they plan to hand out year-end bonuses this year, down from 44 percent last year. The survey of small-business owners from American Express Open also found that fewer employers plan to give workers gifts. Thirty-five percent plan to do so, down from 46 percent. There will be ...
The declaration covers Clark, Floyd, Jennings, Bartholomew, Decatur, Harrison, Jackson, Jefferson, Ripley, Scott and Washington counties.
Advanta Corp., the small-business credit card issuer that cut off accounts of 1 million customers as defaults soared, has filed for bankruptcy and said its undercapitalized banking unit may be turned over to regulators.
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Last month, Gov. Schwarzenegger implored the U.S. Small Business Administration to declare Stanislaus and eight other counties disaster areas. The move makes some businesses in those counties eligible to receive up to $2 million in what the agency calls economic injury disaster loans. On paper, the gov and the SBA might seem like the cavalry coming to the rescue. In reality ... it looks better ...
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Small, non-farm businesses in 35 South Dakota counties and neighboring counties in North Dakota, Nebraska and Wyoming are now eligible to apply for low-interest disaster loans from the U. S. Small Business Administration (SBA).
EVANSVILLE — Marilyn Levine is a world traveler who has published books in three languages, but she takes just as much pride in being a popular figure around LaGrande, Ore. The dean of the College of Arts & Sciences at Eastern Oregon University feels right at home among her community's farmers, ranchers and small-business owners. "All I can tell you is, I can't walk down the street ...
Robert Stopanio's new medical-device manufacturing plant was supposed to open eight months ago and employ about 75 workers in a state that desperately needs jobs. But Stopanio hasn't been able to find the financing.
The unemployed, Latinos, small-business owners and senior citizens are being targeted by the sophisticated swindlers, experts say.
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