Small Business

Two Weeks After Sandy Small Businesses Continue To Suffer

When Sandy hit, dozens of downtown buildings went dark and thousands of employees were relocated. For small businesses like restaurants and salons those relocated employees make up a large portion of the customer base.

2012/11/12

Mitt Romney (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Opinion: Obamacare Is Bad For Small Business

As the final days of the presidential campaign of 2012 wind down, there is ongoing concern about what President Barack Obama’s law for requiring businesses to provide health care for its employees will do to small business owners.

2012/10/25

L to R- Councilmembers James Oddo and Inez Dickens, Speaker Christine Quinn, Councilmembers Diana Reyna and Gale Brewer at small business announcement in City Hall's Red Room - Oct. 2, 2012 (credit: Rich Lamb / WCBS 880)

City Councilmembers Try To Make Things Smoother For Small Business

Members of the New York City Council want to make it easier for small businesses to do business in the city by simplifying things, making people more professional, and getting rid or arcane regulations.

2012/10/02

Barack Obama (Photo credit: JIM WATSON/AFP/GettyImages)

Opinion: Obama Fails To Address Black America’s Disappointments With His Presidency

Many who supported Obama in 2008 did so because they believed that he would help black Americans. The criticism four years later is that having a black president in the White House hasn’t helped African Americans at all.

2012/09/18

President Barack Obama waves to the crowd after delivering remarks during a campaign event in Stamford, Connecticut, on August 6, 2012. (Photo credit: JIM WATSON/AFP/GettyImages)

Obama Fails To Address Black America’s Disappointments With His Presidency

2012/08/09

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Opinion: Big Cities’ People-in-Power Don’t Understand Crime And Murder

For America’s big cities: the people who are supposed to have, need to have, and claim to have all the answers simply don’t have a clue.

2012/07/11

Shuttered businesses in Detroit, MI (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Opinion: Businesses Can’t Afford The Proposed $10-Per-Hour Minimum Wage

U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. from the South Side of Chicago is introducing a $10-per-hour minimum wage across the nation. As a representative, he introduced the measure to his fellow-congressmen in the House yesterday. It […]

2012/06/08

Mayor Michael Bloomberg appears with workers at Terrafina - Brooklyn, NY - Sep 13, 2011 (credit: Kristen Artz / Mayor's Office)

Bloomberg Tries To Give Small Businesses A Boost With Grants

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has declared that small business is going to get us out of this economic slump.

2011/09/14

Small business owners protest Walmart on the steps outside of City Hall in Manhattan on Feb. 3, 2011 (Photo/Al Jones)

Battle To Bring Walmart To NYC Faces Public Hearing

Plans to open a Walmart in Brooklyn were to be the subject of an afternoon hearing. The retailer was making its third attempt to break into the five boroughs.

2011/02/03

A Walmart customer enters a store in Oakland, California (credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Wal-Mart To Open Retail Location In Brooklyn?

Wal-Mart may soon be coming to Brooklyn, but the retailer’s potential move is not popular with some local merchants who fear the competition.

2011/01/11

Obama Orders Sub In N.J., Touts Small Biz

With President Barack Obama’s popularity sliding, along with more leading economic indicators, he made an appearance Wednesday at a New Jersey sandwich shop to tout his small business legislation.

CBS 2HD–2010/07/28

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