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U.S. Rep. Ralph Hall, R-Rockwall, said Thursday he will vote 'no' on the Democrat-backed health care reform package expected to come before the U.S. House of Representatives on Saturday.

After 22 years, Charlotte will soon have a Democrat in the Mayor's office once again.

Levittown - Getting a small business off the ground and keeping it afloat can be a daunting task in the best of times.According to the Small Business Administration, less than 70 percent of new employers survive the first two years and only a little more than half _ 51 percent _ are still in business after five years.Throw in an economic downturn ...

Article by Stephen Giles The franchise sector breathed a collective sigh of relief when the Minister for Small Business Craig Emerson announced the Government's official response to the report of the recent Federal Parliamentary inquiry into franchising.

Acknowledging that it will be a "tough sell," Rep. Jerry McNerney, D-Pleasanton, introduced legislation Wednesday that he says would cut estate taxes for family farms and small businesses nationwide by more than $233 billion in 2011.

With unemployment fast becoming one of US President Barack Obama's biggest domestic challenges, focus is shifting from "too-big-to-fail" manufacturing and financial giants to struggling small businesses.

The Senate has voted to expand a tax break for money-losing companies as part of a bill to extend and expand a tax credit for homebuyers and unemployment benefits for people without jobs for more than a year.

Main Category: Health Insurance / Medical Insurance Also Included In: Litigation / Medical Malpractice ; Medicare / Medicaid / SCHIP ; Seniors / Aging Article Date: 05 Nov 2009 - 4:00 PST House Republicans unveiled their health reform proposal Tuesday night.

CIT might just be that rarest of things: a financial-services firm that emerges from bankruptcy largely intact.

NFIB, The National Federation of Independent Business, the spokes organization for small business in America, says that what the President's proposing will cost 1.6 million jobs and at a time of high unemployment, elimination of jobs is inconceivable to me." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Patay8tYwg Who: Congressman Joe Wilson What: Exclusive ...

Cyberthieves are hacking into small- and medium-sized organizations every week and stealing millions of dollars in an ongoing scam that has moved about US$100 million out of U.S. bank accounts, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation warned Tuesday.

As House Democrats scrambled Thursday to find enough votes to pass their health care bill, thousands of conservatives marched on Capitol Hill, urging lawmakers to kill it.

The unemployment rate has hit double digits for the first time since 1983 - and is likely to go higher.

WASHINGTON - Workers sent home sick with the swine flu or another contagious illness would be guaranteed up to five days' paid sick leave annually under congressional legislation proposed Tuesday.

Two men accused in a $1.3 million real estate investment scam targeting Hispanic owners of small businesses in North County pleaded not guilty today to multiple charges of grand theft and making false representations in the sale of securities.

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Just as the housing sector appears to be recovering, gathering problems in the commercial real estate market threaten to become a new drag on the economy.

Even though the economy is still suffering and many small businesses won't be hiring for some time, some companies are thinking about taking on more workers.

Small business leaders last night called on Gordon Brown to fire his business tsar Alan Sugar after he dismissed struggling firms as 'moaners'. The call followed a wave of complaints over his comments, made at a question and answer session with bosses of small and medium-sized businesses in Manchester on Tuesday.