September 15, 2011
Washington's intrusion in business is polarizing—but most Americans agree that the economy can't recover without innovative jobs policy
June 22, 2011
When Jonathan Jackson started Dimagi, a software firm that makes open-source tools to improve health care in underserved communities and developing countries, he ...
May 18, 2011
Paula Fleming, a freelance copy editor in Minneapolis, spends $3,600 a year on bare-bones health insurance for herself and her husband. For the 2010 tax year, for the ...
April 29, 2011
Small business owners are reporting a bleaker view of their finances and the direction of the economy than they were at the start of the year, according to three ...
April 19, 2011
As the owner of Randol's, a seafood processing plant and restaurant in Lafayette, La., Frank Randol has weathered virtually every natural and man-made disaster to hit ...
January 24, 2011
(Updates the number of banks in the fourth paragraph.) During his last State of the Union, President Barack Obama trumpeted a new $30 billion fund designed to boost ...
July 16, 2010
The number of businesses owned by minorities increased faster than the number owned by whites, according to Census data released July 13. But minority companies' ...
May 5, 2010
Dan Thomsen spent a decade refurbishing and flipping houses in Los Angeles until the real estate market collapsed in 2008. With no remodeling work, the 45-year-old ...
March 16, 2010
Automatic Data Processing's (ADP) sales of services to companies with 50 employees or fewer have increased since September, ADP Chief Executive Officer Gary Butler ...
March 4, 2010
While forecasters expect the Labor Dept. report due out Mar. 5 to show that the U.S. economy is still shedding jobs, data from payroll companies suggest that losses at...
December 18, 2009
Entrepreneurs are flocking to local food, starting businesses devoted to producing and delivering food within their communities. Just as consumers focus new attention ...
November 17, 2009
Senator Olympia Snowe (R-Me.) introduced a bill Nov. 16 to repeal the small business ARC loan program, a stimulus-package initiative she helped create. Too many ...
October 21, 2009
As part of its efforts to stimulate economic recovery, the Obama Administration announced on Oct. 21 a new set of initiatives to help spur lending to small businesses....
October 6, 2009
Unlike most small employers, Boeggeman, George & Corde, a New York law firm with offices in White Plains and Albany, pays full health insurance coverage for each of ...
September 4, 2009
Could health reform control costs for small businesses and expand choices for workers at the same time? Utah is about to find out. In response to a sharp drop in the ...
July 16, 2009
How do the health care reform proposals stack up for entrepreneurs? After months of discussion, Congress finally released detailed plans that will have broad ...
May 4, 2009
With Congress set to begin debating health-care reform in earnest next month, expect to see the trials of small companies once again take center stage. The 16.8 ...
November 13, 2006
Now that the Democrats control both houses of Congress and hold the majority of governorships for the first time since 1994 (see BusinessWeek.com, 11/8/06, "Capitol ...
