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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...
RIDGWAY — Bankers and business owners had a rare opportunity on Thursday when they were able to hear about programs from USDA Rural Development, U.S. Small Business Administration and FHL Bank to help them survive the economy and how to recover.
Small businesses often lead the nation out of recession. Not this time.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 3 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Democratic Senators Tom Harkin and Mary Landrieu and Congresswoman Debbie Halvorson joined Mike Draper, a small business owner from Des Moines, Iowa; Gwendolyn Barnes, a small business owner from Shreveport, Louisiana; Dr.
Small businesses have cut overhead, payroll and advertising to achieve rising profits in spite of the downturn.
In April, San Francisco startup Airbnb.com made enough money to allow the firm's founders to hire employees so they could expand their online marketplace that enables people in 93 countries to rent spare rooms to travelers. Since then, the startup has created... San Francisco - Small business - Business - Electronic commerce - United States
With unemployment fast becoming one of US President Barack Obama's biggest domestic challenges, focus is shifting from "too-big-to-fail" manufacturing and financial giants to struggling small businesses.
PETALUMA, Calif.----The following is a statement by the American Small Business League:
As challenging as our economy is today, small business entrepreneurship is definitely on the rise.
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 ...
SAN FRANCISCO----Wells Fargo & Company today announced it is the #1 Small Business Administration 7 lender in dollars and the #2 lender in units. Figures for the federal fiscal year, which ended September 30, 2009, show Wells Fargo, together with Wachovia, extended 2,347 SBA-guaranteed loans totaling $827 million in financing to small businesses.
More small-business employees can expect no end-of-year bonuses or gifts for 2009. An American Express survey of small-business owners and managers showed fewer of them planning gifts or cash for their workers.
The declaration covers Clark, Floyd, Jennings, Bartholomew, Decatur, Harrison, Jackson, Jefferson, Ripley, Scott and Washington counties.
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.
Advanta became notorious for offering business cards at low rates and then raising them steeply. Its finance unit may wind up in the hands of another bank, says BW's John Tozzi
VERNON HILLS, Ill.----CDW Corporation, a leading provider of technology products and services to business, government and education, today announced the 2009 CDW Report on Small Business Resilience, which identifies management and information technology infrastructure factors that contribute to business survivability and studies how small businesses are responding to the economic recession.
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