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Articles Tagged With 'Small Businesses'

Payroll Taxes Increase for Many Employers Across the U.S.

With the recession emptying unemployment insurance trust funds, many states are raising taxes on business owners.

A Stimulus Pool for Small Businesses Runs Dry

Despite an incentive program to help banks, the number of loans backed by the Small Business Administration has fallen sharply.

Are Minorities Getting Their Share of the Stimulus Dough?

Much stimulus money is going to large, shovel-ready projects, which tends to go to large -- and predominantly white-owned -- construction contractors.

What Health Care Reform Means For: Small Businesses

Tax credits and insurance exchanges would help small businesses help their employees.

Give a Little, Take a Little

Deficits are rising, but the stimulus spending is far from finished.

Stimulus Spending Slowed During Summer

About $1 billion a day is going out the door, and gun manufacturers are getting their share.

Tussle in Tallahassee: Florida Stands Its Ground on Stimulus Spending Speed

Gov. Charlie Crist defends the way his state is handling its money, despite its place at the bottom of a congressional ranking.

The Stimulus Debate Gets Kinky

Some want more money for small businesses, and less for a certain movie house in San Francisco.

Reports: Gov’t Mulls CIT Rescue

The bank's importance as a lender to small businesses could make it difficult to abandon.