Articles Archive for 29 October 2010
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Courtesy Lesley Lopez,
WASHINGTON- Small businesses are the engine of our economy, creating nearly two-thirds of the new jobs over the last 15 years. The current recession has hit American small businesses especially hard – with most of the job losses at the end last year at the smallest firms. A new analysis finds smaller firms lost a crushing twenty-percent market share during the last decade (1997–2007), while large public firm gross revenues grew 16%. [U.S. Women’s Chamber of Commerce analysis of U.S. Census data, 9/27/10]
That is why Congress has …