With Congressman Paul Ryan on the ticket with Mitt Romney, it is clear that a Romney-Ryan administration would choose eliminating the federal deficit over creating jobs as their economic plan. So what does this mean for small businesses if $6 trillion was cut from federal spending over the next 10 years as proposed by Mr. …
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I had the opportunity to visit Zuccotti Park in Lower Manhattan last Thursday. No, I didn’t see Jackson Brown play for the Occupy Wall Street protestors and on-lookers. But I did meet Jesse La Greca who has become a media voice for the movement. This marks my fourth visit to an Occupy site including ours …
All of us have heard the anecdotal stories of how somebody’s brother-in-law is unemployed but yet won’t try to get a job because he’s making more money collecting an unemployment check. Some politicians even use these stories to explain the high unemployment numbers. “If they weren’t getting paid,” they say, “they’d be taking all these …
The Hill’s Congressional BlogOctober 27, 2011 By Lew Prince, managing partner of Vintage Vinyl, an independent music store in St. Louis. I’m one of those “job creators” members of Congress profess to admire so much. Thirty-two years ago, my partner and I started a small business with $300 worth of old records and a booth …
The opinion editorial below ran on the Huffington Post and The Hill yesterday.————————————————————————————————- We Didn’t Vote for This by Frank Knapp, Jr. Whether Americans voted for Republicans or Democrats in the mid-term election, one thing is clear: Voters were demanding that Congress focus intensively on job creation on Main Street — not lobbyists and campaign …
With the holiday season fast approaching and customers getting ready to open up their wallets, this is really the time to remember your SC locally-owned small businesses. Please join us in our “BuySC” nonprofit action campaign. Surveys continue to show that communities with programs encouraging buying from locally-owned businesses improve the sales for those businesses …
Very interesting piece by financial columnist James Surowiecki, excerpted from The New Yorker: ILLUSTRATION: CHRISTOPH NIEMANN (reposted with respect from The New Yorker) “In the nineteen-eighties, a new kind of chain store came to dominate American shopping: the “category killer.” These stores killed off all competition in a category by stocking a near-endless variety of …
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