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Business Groups Attack Stimulus Plan
The president's temporary tax cuts won't help small employers over the long haul, critics say. Read more
Owners Shrug Off Stimulus Plan
A survey finds most small businesses expect to see little benefit from the $160 billion tax-relief package. Read more
Small Firms Applaud Bailout
The $700 billion-plus Wall Street rescue package will help free up credit, small-business groups say. Read more
Healthy Debate Over Bush Health-Care Plan
Small-business groups and labor advocates clash as opponents say proposed tax breaks will leave more employees without health insurance. Read more
Report: Employers Take Advantage of Immigrant Workers
The federal government also fails to enforce workers' rights, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. Read more
Bush's Iraq Veto Puts Minimum-Wage Increase, Tax Cuts on Hold
Both measures, expected to impact small businesses, were attached to a bill that set dates for troop withdrawal. Read more
California Wildfires Send Business Owners Scrambling
The economic toll from the fires, which have scorched more than 400,000 acres, is still not known. Read more
Veto Delays Community-Bank Relief
May 4, 2007 -- The Iraq war spending bill vetoed this week by President Bush contained a tax-relief measure for small community banks aim... Read more
Bush Pledges Boost to Health Care
Feb. 1, 2006 --Amid rising health-care costs for small employers nationwide, President Bush vowed to extend a program of personal tax-free... Read more
Bush Stumps for Health Savings Accounts
During a visit to Ohio, the president once again expressed his support for HSAs as a way of reducing employer health-care costs. Read more
Bush Pushes for Tax Relief, Temporary-Worker Program
The president delivered a wide-ranging speech at the SBA's annual conference. Read more
Bush Makes Case for Temporary Workers
The president described immigrants as vital to the economy, but also pressed for increased border security. Read more
Small-Business Groups Hail Executive Order on Eminent Domain
President Bush instructed federal agencies to limit the seizure of private homes and businesses. Read more
Almost a Tax Plan
The budget deficit is deadly serious. Tax reform should be too. Read more
Unexpected Benefits
More people will start companies, thanks to health savings accounts. Read more
Bush in Virginia
On Thursday, President Bush took his pro-small business, tax-cutting message to the floor of an industrial warehouse in one of the many fast-growing corpo... Read more
Write-Off Cap Increase Possible
President Bush's 2007 budget proposal includes some much needed tax relief for small businesses: the opportunity to write off up to $200,000 a year in exp... Read more
Opportunities for Small Businesses In India?
President Bush spoke to young entrepreneurs today in Hyderabad's Indian Sch... Read more
Bush Says Wage Hike Likely
In his press conference this afternoon, President Bush made headlines by replacing Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. He also praised the nation's grow... Read more
President Pushes Small Business Issues
Feb. 7, 2005 -- Small business issues played a central role in President Bush’s fifth State of the Union speech Wednesday night.Read more
Tort Reform Passes, But Groups Still Oppose
Feb. 17, 2005 -- President Bush and business groups earned a victory Thursday, as the Senate overwhelmingly passed legislation limiting c... Read more
President Signs Revised Bankruptcy Rules into Law
April 21, 2005 --President Bush signed the controversial 500-page Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act into law on Wedn... Read more
Bush: With Small Business, or Against Small Business?
It seems hardly a day goes by that I'm not, as an editor of Inc.com, assigning or editing a news story on Bush and his small business policies. But every ... Read more
Bush Addresses SBA Expo on Energy Policy
Seemingly unphased from his morning in a bunker , President George W. Bush strode onstage at the SBA Expo on... Read more
Cell Yeah!
Yesterday was a big day on the cell stem front. Ignoring President Bush's federal guidelines, Read more
Candidates at Work
Surviving campaign photo ops. Read more
Washington's Small-Business Tussle
As the presidential campaign season chugs along, I've come to realize that the time-honored tradition of candidates kissing babies has been replaced by ca... Read more
Up For Debate
Last night, two ridiculously rich rivals went at it, as the media relentlessly over hyped every machination, every physical nuance, every utterance, and e... Read more
Did Small Business Win?
Small business owners across the country overwhelmingly have supported President George W. Bush during this election year. Reports from the Read more
Election dissection: state & local races
The small-business lobby was watching a few races this November--you know, other than that big one with Bush and Kerry. The tally on some of the most clo... Read more
Letter From The Editor: Rescuing the Economy
Tax policies should favor, not hurt, entrepreneurs. Read more
Briefing: March 2003
News and trends, including the Bush dividend, green-eyed Teamsters, fat and happy IPOers, and the throwback jersey rage. Read more
Back to the Future
The tax cut makes this Bush look very Reaganesque. Read more
The Business Year That Was
As the earth completes yet another revolution around the sun, it's time for reflection. What did you learn about the state of the entrepreneurial union in 2003? Read more
Emotional Branding
Though they all seem to be taking hard a line against George W. Bush (case in point, last week's Bush-bashing Read more
Will Antispam Law Help?
The Can Spam Act of 2003 that President Bush has indicated he will sign into law should help clear our inboxes of some of those annoying, unsolicited mess... Read more
Women Entrepreneurs rock the vote
File this under 'You read it here first': Soccer Moms and Nascar Dads are out as the hot swing voter. Women entrepreneurs are in. So reports the Read more
Senate Offers Aid to Gulf Coast Businesses
September 19, 2005 --Hoping to jumpstart the regional economy, the U.S. Senate on Thursday passed a package of emergency federal aid for s... Read more
Office Politicking
In last year's election Bush took Ohio and Gore claimed Oregon. Could a pair of Inc. 500 CEOs have been responsible for that? Read more
McCain's Coal Contradiction -- In The Bush Tradition
If John McCain's double standard on clean fuel... Read more
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