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Introducing TrendWatch, a weekly video series about the most important topics you need to know to run your small business now. This week: What Obama's jobs plan means for small business.

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Obama’s Big Gamble Over Small Business Job Growth

How can Obama have the biggest impact when he speaks to Congress about job creation Thursday evening?

Growth Is in Overdrive on This Year’s Inc. 500

Companies that create jobs create the future, as Inc. 500 companies have been proving for 30 years. See these people here? Now it’s their turn.

The Future of Venture for America

They're wide-eyed students interested in entrepreneurship, but they're eschewing incubators and sidestepping venture funding. What gives?

Study: Start-ups Smaller, Creating Fewer Jobs

Kauffman Foundation analysis shows even successful small businesses aren't adding jobs at the rates they did in previous decades.

Clinton Corrals Start-ups for Job-Creation Talks

By Nicole Carter | Jun 28, 2011

Yep, it's still the economy stupid, and the former president is talking small business and job creation at the Clinton Global Initiative this week. Read more

How to Contest an Unemployment Claim

By Carolyn M. Brown | Apr 30, 2010

If you feel a former worker is filing an unemployment benefits claim that you should not have to pay, there are steps you can take to contest it. Read more

The 2010 Inc. 5000: Top 10 Job Creators

Aug 12, 2010

With unemployment statistics all over the media, the job market can feel all doom and gloom these days. But, these Inc. 5000 companies have been the bright s... View slideshow

Reader Mail: October 2010

By Inc. staff | Oct 1, 2010

Responses to Inc.’s plan for revitalizing the American dream. Read more

A Craft-Beer Stimulus Plan?

By Kasey Wehrum | Oct 1, 2010

A tax cut for craft brewers aims to spur local employment. Read more

6 Top Performing Industries for 2011

By Evan Klonsky | Dec 16, 2010

Want to start a business in 2011? Market researcher IBISWorld has targeted six industries with high potential for growth in the year to come for small and me... View slideshow

Nation Could Lose Two Million More Jobs

By Venuri Siriwardane | Jan 19, 2009

The labor market won't improve in the near future, a business research firm says. Read more

Report: Small Businesses Slashing Jobs

By Andrew Leigh | Jan 14, 2009

Declines indicate that the recession is affecting employers of all sizes. Read more

How Important Are Startups to the Economy?

By Kelly Faircloth | Feb 15, 2009

Without the jobs new companies create, yearly employment growth would be negative. Read more

Small Businesses Slash Jobs

By Kelly Faircloth | Apr 2, 2009

But number of open positions suggests better times ahead. Read more

First-Time Claims for Jobless Benefits on the Rise

By Alexandra Cheney | Aug 27, 2009

Numbers are bad news for retailers hoping for more consumer spending. Read more

How We Pick the Best Cities

By Michael Shires | Jul 10, 2008

This year's rankings continue the methodology used last year, which emphasizes the robustness of a region's growth and allows the rankings to include all ... Read more

Job Growth Weakens

By Angus Loten | Jan 30, 2008

Cuts at large corporations last month reversed modest employment gains at smaller firms, recent reports show. Read more

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