Federal Budget


What The Nsf Thinks Of Its Own Rd Program

Aug 1, 1981

The only agency in the federal government required by law to include small businesses specifically in its R&D funding wishes it didn't have to. ...  Read story

Deficit Spending Steals Money From Small Companies

By Robert E. Berney |  Aug 1, 1981

When the government competes with business for credit, guess who wins.  Read story

What The NSF Thinks Of Its Own R&D Program

Aug 1, 1981

The only agency in the federal government required by law to include small businesses specifically in its R&D funding wishes it didn't have to. To t...  Read story

Budget Surplus

When a governmental entity has revenues from taxes, fees, and other impositions which exceed its budgeted outlays, it is said to have a budget surplus. Wh...  Read story

Sign Of The Times

By Martha E. Mangelsdorf |  Jul 1, 1990

Government agency fires head of DARPA because of a risky investment deal.  Read story

Congress to Vote on Revised Omnibus Bill

By Michael Aneiro

Nov. 30, 2004 --Congress last week approved a temporary spending bill until legislators can revise the omnibus package they approved earli...  Read story

Greenspan Warns Deficit Could Spark Rate Soar

By Jonathan Steiman |  Apr 21, 2005

April 21, 2005 -- Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan warned on Thursday that if America's budget deficit is not addressed interest r...  Read story

Business Groups Protest Iraq Bill

By Angus Loten |  May 4, 2007

The groups want Congress to consider a minimum-wage increase and tax cuts as separate legislation.  Read story

Veto Delays Community-Bank Relief

May 4, 2007

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 story

Employees Favor Minimum-Wage Hike

May 14, 2007

Most workers that are paid an hourly wage support a proposed increase in the federal minimum wage, even if it results in higher consumer prices and job cu...  Read story

The Economy Today

By  |  Dec 20, 2007

The national deficit and a broken health-care system are just a few of the issues plaguing our economy, according to some of the nation's top entrepreneurs.  Read story

Bush's Iraq Veto Puts Minimum-Wage Increase, Tax Cuts on Hold

By Angus Loten |  May 2, 2007

Both measures, expected to impact small businesses, were attached to a bill that set dates for troop withdrawal.  Read story

Stop Taxing Capital Gains

By Sam I. Nakagama |  Jul 1, 1981

The last time the capital gains tax was reduced, innovation revived. Now let's get rid of the tax completely.  Read story

New Start for Women's Procurement Program

By Kelly Faircloth |  Apr 14, 2009

Recent legislation stops controversial Bush-era rules.  Read story

Going For Broke

By Stanley A. Weiss |  Mar 1, 1983

American weapons, not Russian, will be the death of us yet, and part of the reason is the unblinking support of the business community  Read story

Book Money

By Michael P. Cronin |  Aug 1, 1994

Tips for finding state-provided grant money to improve employees' skills  Read story

Motion Without Movement

By JAY FINEGAN |  Jan 1, 1988

A diary of official Washington in the midst of an economic crisis  Read story

This Sector Is Secured

By Joel Kotkin |  May 1, 2005

Report from Virginia.  Read story

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Jun 1, 1981

The effect of federal budget cuts on small business is becoming clearer. The Small Business Administration fat-trimming includes a 25% cut in direct and g...  Read story

Despite House Vote, More Delays Expected on Minimum Wage and Tax Cuts

By Angus Loten |  May 11, 2007

Both measures are included in the latest Iraq spending bill, which President Bush says he will veto again.  Read story

AARP Survey Reveals Support for Social Security

By Angus Loten |  Aug 12, 2005

August 12, 2005 --The recent debate over the role of private investment in Social Security reform has strengthened public confidence in th...  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

Read Our Lips

By Inc Staff |  Feb 1, 1989

A surprising number of CEOs favor tax increases for fighting the federal budget deficit.  Read story

The Rise and Fall of Thinking Machines

By Gary A. Taubes |  Sep 15, 1995

A close up look at a doomed-yet-brilliant start-up computer company that never quite grasped the basics of business.  Read story

Economy Sputters in Fourth Quarter

By Angus Loten |  Jan 27, 2006

Jan. 27, 2006 --The U.S. economy slowed considerably at the end of 2005, dropping to its weakest pace in three years, the Commerce Departm...  Read story

Arkansas Program To Target Uninsured Workers

By Ryan J. McCarthy |  Mar 13, 2006

The new Arkansas Safety Net Benefit Program seeks to help small-business employees without health coverage.  Read story

Lawmakers Assail SBA's Proposed Budget

By Angus Loten |  Feb 9, 2007

Democrats contend that President Bush is shortchanging the Small Business Administration.  Read story

Business Cycles

The business cycle is the periodic but irregular up-and-down movement in economic activity, measured by fluctuations in real gross domestic product (GDP) ...  Read story

Democrats Charge Bush Short-Changing SBA, Others

By Jonathan Steiman |  Feb 21, 2005

Feb. 21, 2005 -- Democrats are making small business a point of contention in their battle against the Republican White House. In ...  Read story

Medicare and Medicaid

Medicare and Medicaid are health insurance programs sponsored by the federal government that cover medical expenses for elderly, disabled, and low-income ...  Read story

Almost a Tax Plan

By Robert E. Litan |  Jan 1, 2006

The budget deficit is deadly serious. Tax reform should be too.  Read story

Back to the Future

By Bobbie Gossage |  Jul 1, 2003

The tax cut makes this Bush look very Reaganesque.  Read story

Uncle Sam Wants You -- To Do Rd For Defense

Jun 1, 1981

The Department of Defense, which has long relied on large companies for the bulk of its purchases, recently turned an eye to small businesses for research...  Read story

All Hat, No Cattle

By Rhonda Abrams |  Mar 1, 2004

When it comes to pronouncements about small business, President George W. Bush stands tall, "Entrepreneurs create between 60 and 80% of the new jobs natio...  Read story

What Do We Do Now?

By Christopher Caggiano |  Apr 1, 1993

FaxPoll results on what President Clinton can and should do to help small businesses.  Read story

Why I Avoid Government Contracts

By Charles George |  Jun 1, 1982

The Davis-Bacon Act, a relic from the Depression, inflates costs on federal construction projects and discourages small builders from bidding on them.  Read story

Weaker Dollar Attracting Execs

By Michael Gadd |  Jul 24, 2008

While tougher on domestic firms, the cheaper U.S. dollar is drawing more foreign business leaders to the states.  Read story

Weathering The Crisis: The Recession Explained

Dec 1, 1982

Forget interest rates. They are irrelevent. Ignore federal budget deficits and overseas competition, too. They don't mean a thing. Instead, says Jer...  Read story

Defense Spending Gives Manufacturing a Boost

By Darren Dahl

May 11,2004 -- As the bill for the war in Iraq mounts, long dormant industries like textile and apparel manufacturing have sprung to life...  Read story

Making Economics Easy To Understand

By Prentice-Hall |  Jun 1, 1981

In a stimulating text, two prominent economists tell how we got into this mess and look for ways out.  Read story