Small Business News

U.S. unemployment kept rising in its fastest pace in more than five years in September due to a worsening economic downturn, the Labor Department said Friday.

DRAFFEN. carrie.mason-draffen@newsday.com -- Newsday , October 6, 2008 Monday ALL EDITIONS For Greg Bavaro, the owner of Garden City Pizza and Catering, the tough economy has meant tough choices.

TRENTON -- The unfolding national recession and what New Jersey can do to effectively respond to the crisis will be front and center when Assembly and Senate committees meet today.

The Bad News Express appears to be continuing its high-speed joyride across the country as reports of vanishing jobs, risky assets and tightening credit markets continue to spell disaster for the faltering U.S. ...

Q: I am a small business owner in a service business. I feel that when I am dealing with my clients and my vendors I am at a disadvantage because I have never had any formal training in how to negotiate.

A day of reckoning is approaching for some small-business owners: Oct. 15, when those who got extensions of the deadline for filing 2007 tax returns must now send in their completed forms -- and pay any tax ...

Relief on Wall Street over the hard-won passage of a $700 billion bailout package for the financial system apparently hasn't yet trickled down to the pubs, storefronts, car lots and malls of Main Street.

New York Sen. Charles Schumer is calling for federal help for small businesses that have been slammed by the ongoing credit crisis in the markets.

Schumer is expected to call for the creation of a temporary small business direct loan program modeled after the student loan program during a news conference scheduled for Sunday morning.

Schumer's office says in a statement that a loan program is necessary because funds from the $700 billion bailout of the financial industry won't be available for at least a month.

GOP Rep. Phil English was left standing two years ago when two longtime political allies from western Pennsylvania lost.

Less than 24 hours after supporting the Senate Wall Street bailout, presidential candidate Senator John McCain brought his "Straight Talk" to Colorado.

In recent weeks, as the American people have continued to grapple with a slowing economy and instability on Wall Street, the response to calls for a sweeping economic stabilization plan has understandably been ...

In their most aggressive encounter yet, the two former governors disagreed sharply over the need for the $700 billion rescue that comes at taxpayers' expense.

While a lack of liquidity in the commercial paper market is making a mess of funding for some Fortune 500 companies, it's a whole different ballgame when you scale down to the world of small business.

Prime Minister Gordon Brown will propose a 12 billion fund to help small businesses deal with the credit crunch when he meets fellow European leaders in Paris.

Missed opening statement Key points: Palin: "Darn right it was the predatory lender." Populist ugh.

Oregon Gov. Ted Kulongoski is hailing the passage of the $700 billion rescue of the nation's financial industry, calling it a "lifeline for businesses and communities of all sizes." "It is what our country ...

Gov. Deval Patrick yesterday announced he will make "hundreds of millions of dollars" in budget cuts in mid-October as a softening economy takes a toll on state tax revenues.

Each Thursday at 8:30 a.m. EST, the government tells us about how many people went through one of the most unpleasant experiences of their lives: filing for unemployment help for the first time.

PHOENIX a ' A discrepancy between enrollment figures for Arizona State University's downtown campus and the actual number of students taking at least one class in Phoenix has left some business owners ...

The campaigns of Democratic Rep. Nancy Boyda and Republican challenger Lynn Jenkins continued Thursday to spar over Jenkins' stance on the federal minimum wage.