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The recession hits your local lemonade stand
Jennifer Guerra Sep 22, 2011
Small businesses bore a lot of the consequences of the recession. Two pre-teen entrepreneurs talk about how their summer business took a hit during the recession.
White House to eliminate redundant regulations
Sep 22, 2011
The Obama administration says that it's removing hundreds of unnecessary business regulations in hopes the changes will encourage hiring and create jobs.
Small business tries to create jobs
Jennifer Collins Sep 22, 2011
Los Angeles company copes with economic uncertainty when it comes to hiring
Market tremors cause real-world worries for Commerce businessman
Aug 12, 2011
The president of NicoNat furniture company in Commerce tells us how the stock market gyrations and the overall economy is affecting his company
Michele Bachmann's economic views
Jan 27, 2012
The New Yorker's Washington correspondent Ryan Lizza explains how growing up impoverished shaped the financial thinking of the GOP presidential hopeful.
Lean manufacturing catches on with small businesses
Tony Arnold Sep 22, 2011
The recession forced manufacturers to reconsider their business models. Now more are going "lean."
Obama goes bigger on social media
John Moe Jun 20, 2011
The 2012 presidential election will be fought in the trenches of social media and the Obama re-election campaign is going big and hard already. The...
Small business needs more loans
Nancy Marshall-Genzer Sep 22, 2011
The Senate is looking into how to increase the amount of money credit unions lend to small business.
Commerce Department pushes small businesses to increase exports
Jennifer Collins Sep 22, 2011
New reports show U.S. exports are slipping, and 1 percent of U.S. companies sell products abroad. The Commerce Department wants to change that -- one (very) small enterprise at a time.
Cyber security attacks can hit smaller businesses, too
Sep 22, 2011
It's not just the big companies who can suffer a security breach -- cyber thieves can attack small or mid-size businesses and cost a lot of damage.
