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Most Calif. Small Businesses No Longer Provide Health Care
A new study found that increased costs have forced a majority to abandon coverage. Read more
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Opposition to Health-Care Bill Gains Momentum
New Hampshire’s governor became the latest state official to speak out against association health plans. Read more
Senate Votes to Rescind FCC Ruling
The U.S. Senate voted to rescind new FCC regulations that would a... Read more
The Would-be Runners
A Random Gathering of the Politically Ambitious Read more
Q
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 more
Give Small Businesses The Tax Breaks On Mergers
In the corporate mating game, large companies have the cards stacked in their favor. Taxpayers and small businesses end up footing the bill. Read more
Five Tips for First-Time Board Members
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 more
House Passes Small Business-Friendly OSHA Bills
July 14, 2005 --A package of legislation that aims to bolster small businesses' clout in challenging Occupational Safety and Health Admini... Read more
'Isn't Anybody Back There Listening?'
Sen. Robert Bennet (R-Utah) chastises his colleagues for the damage they have done to small business in U.S. Read more
A Senator's Exit Interview
As he prepares to leave Congress, Senator Bob Bennett of Utah reflects on his life in business and in politics. Read more
The Stakes In The '86 Elections
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 more
Senate Delays Estate Tax Vote
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 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
Women Lawmakers Want Contracting Plan Scrapped
A group of women Senators says a rule meant to boost federal contracting for women is too little, too late. Read more
A Farewell To Arms
How the cancellation of just one weapons program closed a major defense contractor and left hundreds of suppliers in the lurch Read more
Warner's Senate Bid
Mark Warner, the wireless entrepreneur who served as Virginia's governor, announced today in a web video that he intends to run for the U.S. Senate seat b... Read more
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 more
25 Years. 7,900 Companies. One Enormous Impact
For 25 years, the most exciting companies in America have been getting noticed here. Microsoft, Timberland, Jenny Craig--glad to be of service. Read more
Quiz: The Year in Entrepreneurship, 2010
Take Inc.’s end-of-year quiz to see what you remember, what you missed, and what you want to forget about in 2010. Read more
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 more
FYI: Growing By Design
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 more
Employment Lines
Some guidelines for getting the information you need from job applicants -- without breaking the law Read more
Dispute Over State Laws Blocks Insurance Bill
Association health plans flounder (again). Read more
Dispute Over State Laws Blocks Insurance Bill
Association health plans flounder (again). Read more
Measuring Clout
If small business can help Boeing, why can't it help itself? Read more
Privacy Concerns Continue to Dog Facebook
Several U.S. Senators and the Federal Trade Commission are looking to regulate Facebook and other social networking sites. How does that affect you? Read more
Vote For Your Local CEO
CEO-turned-candidate for U.S. Senate discusses his appeal to voters. Read more
2009: A Tough Year to Sell a Business
A look at some businesses that were put up for sale in 2009 and how they fared. Read more
The Wrong Remedy
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 more
Inc. 500 CEO drops Senate bid
Gary Hirshberg the CEO of Stonyfield Farm has decided not to run for the U.S. Senate next year, the Boston Globe ... Read more
Courting Trouble
For most entrepreneurs, a little shamelessness is indispensable. In Kentucky, Tina Conner took that impulse a step too far. Read more
Hair Today, Gone . . . Oh, Forget It
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 more
Bad Medicine
The SBA's minority set-aside program could use some reforms, but not the idiotic ones being advanced in the wake of Wedtech Read more
The Political Odyssey Of Bill Nourse
How a mild-mannered hardware store proprietor joined a new breed of savvy, small business activists. Read more
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 more
What I Know Now: Nibbled to Death
Former U.S. Senator George McGovern discusses what being a small business owner has taught him. Read more
Beware The Trojan Horse
Inside those Japanese auto plants are the seeds of destruction for thousands of small U.S. companies Read more
Half a World Away, an Entrepreneur Grapples with (and Profits from) China's Boom
How one U.S. manufacturer competes with China. Read more
Grand Plans
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 more
Taming the Dragon
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 more
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