Job Growth


Why Things Aren't As Bad As They Seem

Sep 1, 1981

Researcher David Birch says the United States is better at providing services than making products. That adds up to a rosy future.  Read story

Tax Incentives Help Create Jobs

By John Bishop |  Jan 1, 1982

Tax credits for hiring the unemployed would work if employers could only understand the rules.  Read story

Public Enemy Number One

By Milton D. Stewart |  Apr 1, 1982

With all the talk about deficits, we've lost sight of the fact that jobs are the key to a healthy economy.  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

Where the Jobs Are

By Angus Loten |  Apr 19, 2006

Small employers are creating jobs at a breakneck pace. Here are the industries they're influencing, and the opportunities that lie within them.  Read story

What America Needs Is A Few Good Failures

By Tom Richman |  Sep 1, 1983

Four years ago, David Birch showed that small companies create most of the country's jobs. Now he has found that failure is just as important as success in k...  Read story

Does Technology Really Create Jobs?

By Tom Richman |  Aug 1, 1984

David Birch, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology researcher who first measured the role of small companies in creating jobs, recently turned his com...  Read story

Wake Up!

By Judith A. Hayner |  Oct 1, 1985

Come on, fellows: It's 1985 and women are everywhere, involved in everything, and visible no matter where you look -- with the possible exception of your ...  Read story

Measuring Innovation

Jun 1, 1987

To assess innovation statistically company by company across the entire economy, we have used the Growth Index -- a tool created at Cognetics Inc. to meas...  Read story

Yankee Doodle Dandy

By DAVID L. BIRCH |  Jul 1, 1987

Entrepreneurship and innovation make our business culture worth celebrating. But they pose challenges, too  Read story

The Rise And Fall Of Everybody

By DAVID L. BIRCH |  Sep 1, 1987

Turbulence is the new fact of business life, and we'd better understand what it means  Read story

The Booming Hidden Market

By DAVID L. BIRCH |  Oct 1, 1987

There are companies out there that'll need what you're selling. You just haven't heard of them yet  Read story

Who Survives?

By M.E.M. |  Jul 1, 1988

The common wisdom has long held that four out of five new businesses fail within five years. Once again, the common wisdom is wrong, at least according t...  Read story

The Disciples of David Birch

By John Case |  Jan 1, 1989

A new generation of researchers discover the effect of small business on the economy.  Read story

What Ever Happened To The Lean, Mean Job Machine?

By George Gendron |  Nov 1, 1992

Discouraging signs that start-ups are no longer creating jobs at the rate they once did.  Read story

With Friends Like This, Who Needs Enemies?

By George Gendron |  Jun 1, 1993

A series of quotes about the position of small business in the economy.  Read story

It's Job Generation, Stupid

By Bo Burlingham |  Aug 1, 1993

What Bill Clinton had better learn about how jobs, wealth, and individual prosperity are created in America.  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

Looking for Jobs in All the Wrong Places

By John Case |  Mar 1, 1994

Government should foster innovation and entrepreneurship instead of focusing on companies' sizes.  Read story

A Bad Investment

By Timothy Bates |  Jan 1, 1995

A professor of labor and urban studies explains why empowerment zones are doomed, and offers a better plan.  Read story

The Wonderland Economy

By John Case |  May 15, 1995

A close-up look at the vital role small business plays in America's economy that debunks many myths about this sector.  Read story

On-Line Debate: Small Is Beautiful! Big Is Best!

By George Gendron |  May 15, 1995

Inc's editor-in-chief moderates a round-table debate among four economists over job creation.  Read story

The Age of the Gazelle

By John Case |  May 15, 1996

A look at some data that shows most of today's new jobs come from a relative handful of fast-growing companies.  Read story

Is America Really Different?

By John Case |  May 15, 1996

Data showing the roles small businesses play in European economies compared with the role they play in the U.S economy.  Read story

Letters

By Various Inc Staff |  Oct 1, 1996

Readers respond to topics and articles from past issues of Inc. magazine.  Read story

The New-Economy Almanac

By Elyse M. Friedman |  May 15, 1997

A statistical and informational snapshot of today's businesses and how they are operating in the new economy.  Read story

Bankruptcies Plague Small Businesses

By Jessalyn Swindoll |  Jun 8, 2006

March 2004 --While job growth at big companies tends to make more headlines, job creation in the United States also comes from small busin...  Read story

Economy Showing Gains in Key Areas

By Allen Roberts

More good news for the economy: America's productivity is up and jobs are being added to the economy, according to the first-quarter numbers released late...  Read story

June Job Numbers Disappoint

By Matt Quinn

July 5, 2004 -- Fewer jobs were added to the economy in June than in previous months, according to a new report, but small businesses and...  Read story

Fed Raises Rates, Believes Economy Will Accelerate

By Matt Quinn

August 11, 2004 -- The Federal Reserve raised its short-term interest rate target by a quarter-point for the second time this year on Tue...  Read story

U.S. Economy Added Only 32,000 Jobs in July

By Matt Quinn

The lone bright spot on the report was that the unemployment rate fell to 5.5 percent in July, down from 5.6 percent in June. The payroll survey and the u...  Read story

Economy Shows Strong Job Growth in October

By Darren Dahl

Nov. 8, 2004 --Maybe the election was all about the economy after all, at least when it comes to new jobs. Following on the heels o...  Read story

Swing States See Weak September Job Growth

By Michael Aneiro

Nov. 2, 2004 --While over two-thirds of all states reported employment gains in September, those gains were all but wiped out by the compa...  Read story

Small Businesses See Rosy 2005

By Darren Dahl |  Feb 24, 2005

Feb. 24, 2005 -- Growth in the nation’s gross domestic product coupled with an increase in the number of new jobs added and a rebound i...  Read story

Job Gains in February

By Jonathan Steiman |  Mar 7, 2005

March 4, 2005 -- More than a quarter-million jobs were created last month, confirming that the economy is growing at a robust pace. <...  Read story

Where the Jobs Are

By Kasey Wehrum |  Apr 22, 2005

April 25, 2005 -- Tennessee may be known as "The Volunteer State," but a recent study suggests that more and more of its residents are be...  Read story

Employment Picture Warms in June

By Max Chafkin |  Jul 8, 2005

July 8, 2005 --The unemployment rate fell to its lowest level since September 2001, as the economy added 146,000 jobs, according to a repo...  Read story

Fast-Growing Companies Creating More Jobs

By Angus Loten |  Oct 19, 2005

Oct. 19, 2005 --Today's most successful small and mid-size companies are also engines of job growth, this year's Read story

Fast-Growing Companies Creating More Jobs

By Angus Loten |  Oct 19, 2005

Oct. 19, 2005 --Today's most successful small and mid-size companies are also engines of job growth, this year's Read story

Fast-Growing Companies Creating More Jobs

By Angus Loten |  Oct 19, 2005

Oct. 19, 2005 --Today's most successful small and mid-size companies are also engines of job growth, this year's Inc. 500 ranking shows.Read story