Why Things Aren't As Bad As They Seem
Researcher David Birch says the United States is better at providing services than making products. That adds up to a rosy future. Read story
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 credits for hiring the unemployed would work if employers could only understand the rules. Read story
With all the talk about deficits, we've lost sight of the fact that jobs are the key to a healthy economy. Read story
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
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
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
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
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
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
Entrepreneurship and innovation make our business culture worth celebrating. But they pose challenges, too Read story
Turbulence is the new fact of business life, and we'd better understand what it means Read story
There are companies out there that'll need what you're selling. You just haven't heard of them yet Read story
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
A new generation of researchers discover the effect of small business on the economy. Read story
Discouraging signs that start-ups are no longer creating jobs at the rate they once did. Read story
A series of quotes about the position of small business in the economy. Read story
What Bill Clinton had better learn about how jobs, wealth, and individual prosperity are created in America. Read story
Sen. Robert Bennet (R-Utah) chastises his colleagues for the damage they have done to small business in U.S. Read story
Government should foster innovation and entrepreneurship instead of focusing on companies' sizes. Read story
A professor of labor and urban studies explains why empowerment zones are doomed, and offers a better plan. Read story
A close-up look at the vital role small business plays in America's economy that debunks many myths about this sector. Read story
Inc's editor-in-chief moderates a round-table debate among four economists over job creation. Read story
A look at some data that shows most of today's new jobs come from a relative handful of fast-growing companies. Read story
Data showing the roles small businesses play in European economies compared with the role they play in the U.S economy. Read story
Readers respond to topics and articles from past issues of Inc. magazine. Read story
A statistical and informational snapshot of today's businesses and how they are operating in the new economy. Read story
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Oct. 19, 2005 --Today's most successful small and mid-size companies are also engines of job growth, this year's Read story
Oct. 19, 2005 --Today's most successful small and mid-size companies are also engines of job growth, this year's Read story
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
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