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1. Why do its supporters call the Small Business Innovation Act "an urgent national need?" Sen. Warren Rudman (R-N.H.) led a brilliantly successful... Read story
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Most Calif. Small Businesses No Longer Provide Health Care
By Angus Loten | Mar 6, 2006
A new study found that increased costs have forced a majority to abandon coverage. Read story
Opposition to Health-Care Bill Gains Momentum
By Ted O’Callahan | May 2, 2006
New Hampshire’s governor became the latest state official to speak out against association health plans. Read story
Give Small Businesses The Tax Breaks On Mergers
By Arthur Burck | Apr 1, 1982
In the corporate mating game, large companies have the cards stacked in their favor. Taxpayers and small businesses end up footing the bill. Read story
Five Tips for First-Time Board Members
By Ralph Ward | Jun 1, 2000
For too long, corporate directors have been supposed to know everything, so much so that they're afraid to ask when they don't know something. This is mos... Read story
'Isn't Anybody Back There Listening?'
By George Gendron | Oct 1, 1993
Sen. Robert Bennet (R-Utah) chastises his colleagues for the damage they have done to small business in U.S. Read story
House Passes Small Business-Friendly OSHA Bills
By Christina Galoozis | Jul 13, 2005
July 14, 2005 --A package of legislation that aims to bolster small businesses' clout in challenging Occupational Safety and Health Admini... Read story
The Stakes In The '86 Elections
By JAY FINEGAN | Nov 1, 1986
This month, all eyes are on the Senate, where a Democratic victory would put business interests on the defensive. Would this be the end of the Reagan revolut... Read story
Senate Delays Estate Tax Vote
By Angus Loten | Sep 8, 2005
September 8, 2005 --The U.S. Senate will delay voting on the future of the estate tax in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Senate Majority Le... Read story
Senate Offers Aid to Gulf Coast Businesses
By Angus Loten | Sep 19, 2005
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 story
A Farewell To Arms
By JAY FINEGAN | Jun 1, 1987
How the cancellation of just one weapons program closed a major defense contractor and left hundreds of suppliers in the lurch Read story
Women Lawmakers Want Contracting Plan Scrapped
By Angus Loten | Sep 23, 2008
A group of women Senators says a rule meant to boost federal contracting for women is too little, too late. Read story
Small Businesses Get a Tax Break Too
October 13, 2004 --Included in the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004, the $136 billion corporate tax-cut bill passed yesterday by the U.S... Read story
25 Years. 7,900 Companies. One Enormous Impact
By Leigh Buchanan | Sep 1, 2006
For 25 years, the most exciting companies in America have been getting noticed here. Microsoft, Timberland, Jenny Craig--glad to be of service. Read story
Senate Approves Corporate Tax Cuts
Oct. 12, 2004 --Congress voted Monday to approve an inclusive $140 billion corporate tax-cut bill in the hopes of defusing ongoing Europea... Read story
FYI: Growing By Design
By George Gendron | May 1, 1998
Inc.'s editor looks at how office design can turn job interviews into a retail experience; the U.S. Senate's failure to fix its own Year 2000 bugs; and rules... Read story
Employment Lines
By Marisa Manley | Jun 1, 1988
Some guidelines for getting the information you need from job applicants -- without breaking the law Read story
Measuring Clout
By Milton D. Stewart | Jul 1, 1981
If small business can help Boeing, why can't it help itself? Read story
Dispute Over State Laws Blocks Insurance Bill
By Ryan McCarthy | Jul 1, 2006
Association health plans flounder (again). Read story
Dispute Over State Laws Blocks Insurance Bill
By Ryan McCarthy | Jul 1, 2006
Association health plans flounder (again). Read story
Vote For Your Local CEO
By Elizabeth Conlin | Jun 1, 1990
CEO-turned-candidate for U.S. Senate discusses his appeal to voters. Read story
The Wrong Remedy
By Donna Sammons | Oct 1, 1983
Perloff Bros. Inc., a Philadelphia-based wholesaler of Tartan Foods, wanted to expand and had found just the way to do it. A small wholesale grocer in ups... Read story
Hair Today, Gone . . . Oh, Forget It
By Leslie Brokaw | Mar 1, 1988
You can't fight city hall, but the Board of Barbers and Cosmetologists is another matter, or so Caryl Barday discovered when she tried to set up an in-off... Read story
Bad Medicine
By C. MICHAEL GOODEN | Jun 1, 1988
The SBA's minority set-aside program could use some reforms, but not the idiotic ones being advanced in the wake of Wedtech Read story
Courting Trouble
By Nadine Heintz | Oct 1, 2003
For most entrepreneurs, a little shamelessness is indispensable. In Kentucky, Tina Conner took that impulse a step too far. Read story
What I Know Now: Nibbled to Death
By George McGovern | Dec 1, 1993
Former U.S. Senator George McGovern discusses what being a small business owner has taught him. Read story
The Political Odyssey Of Bill Nourse
By Tom Richman | Nov 1, 1982
How a mild-mannered hardware store proprietor joined a new breed of savvy, small business activists. Read story
Age Discrimination in Employment Act
The Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) prohibits any employer from refusing to hire, discharge, or otherwise discriminate against any individual ... Read story
Beware The Trojan Horse
By JAY FINEGAN | Dec 1, 1987
Inside those Japanese auto plants are the seeds of destruction for thousands of small U.S. companies Read story
Half a World Away, an Entrepreneur Grapples with (and Profits from) China's Boom
By Ted C. Fishman | Mar 1, 2005
How one U.S. manufacturer competes with China. Read story
Grand Plans
By Donna Fenn | Aug 1, 1999
Shoestring start-ups: seven fast-growing companies that were started for $1,000 or less, and tactics to borrow for your own start-up. Read story
Taming the Dragon
By Stephanie Overby | May 25, 2000
It's what some refer to as the great "call" of China -- the siren song of the most populous market on earth, one that is virtually untapped by outsiders. ... Read story
Entrepreneurship Honor Roll *
Feb 1, 1982
The U.S. Senate for passing S.881, 90-0. The 40-member House Small Business Committee. The 162 co-sponsors (as of this writing) of H.R. 4326.
Dossier: Life of the Party
By Kate O'Sullivan | Nov 1, 2002
Terry McAuliffe, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, brings entrepreneurial zeal to political fund-raising. Read story
Political Animals
By Clay Risen | Jan 1, 2008
Whether they raise cash in battleground states or bring a manager's touch to a campaign, these company builders have breached the inner circle of U.S. politics. Read story
Tin Men
By Edward O. Welles | Oct 1, 1990
Profile of three businessmen who built reputable businesses in traditionally disreputable industries. Read story
Full Steam Ahead
By Edward O. Welles | Dec 1, 1989
A profile of Congentrix Inc., the #1 Inc. 500 company for 1989. Read story
Unbridled Growth
By Curtis Hartman | Dec 1, 1985
For five years, Herbalife International's health and diet pitch has made it one of the fastest-growing companies in American history. Now a series of investi... Read story
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