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Philadelphia Small Businesses Get Helping Hand From International Investment Bank

Goldman Sachs is committing $20 million dollars, part of their 10,000 Small Businesses initiative.

2013/01/09

Mixed Reviews On Whether Looming Fiscal Cliff Is Harming Local Businesses

It’s a pretty picture of holiday cheer, thanks to decorations in Collingswood. But with the fiscal cliff looming, is the financial picture for businesses pretty, too?

2012/12/12

Bucks County Mom-And-Pop Shop To Close In March

A tough economy for retail businesses over the past couple of years has apparently taken its toll on a mom-and-pop business in Bucks County that’s been around for more than three decades.

2012/12/09

Small Business Owner From Chester County Gets An Invite To The White House

Mandy Cabot showed us how she modeled her black patent leather Dansko shoes for President Obama.

2012/11/28

Mitt Romney (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Opinion: Obamacare Is Bad For Small Business

As the final days of the presidential campaign of 2012 wind down, there is ongoing concern about what President Barack Obama’s law for requiring businesses to provide health care for its employees will do to small business owners.

2012/10/25

Barack Obama (Photo credit: JIM WATSON/AFP/GettyImages)

Opinion: Obama Fails To Address Black America’s Disappointments With His Presidency

Many who supported Obama in 2008 did so because they believed that he would help black Americans. The criticism four years later is that having a black president in the White House hasn’t helped African Americans at all.

2012/08/09

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Opinion: Big Cities’ People-in-Power Don’t Understand Crime And Murder

For America’s big cities: the people who are supposed to have, need to have, and claim to have all the answers simply don’t have a clue.

2012/07/11

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Study: Immigrants More Likely To Open A Small Business Than American-Born Workers

A new report out today from the Fiscal Policy Institute finds that immigrants are more likely than U.S.-born workers to start small businesses.

2012/06/14

Shuttered businesses in Detroit, MI (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Opinion: Businesses Can’t Afford The Proposed $10-Per-Hour Minimum Wage

U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. from the South Side of Chicago is introducing a $10-per-hour minimum wage across the nation. As a representative, he introduced the measure to his fellow-congressmen in the House yesterday. It […]

2012/06/08

(Small business owner Ken Weinstein, in his Philadelphia office. Credit: Cherri Gregg)

Part 1: Small and Struggling

“We as small business owners are trying to do the right thing by insuring our employees, but it’s not always easy to do that,” says Ken Weinstein, owner of the Trolley Car Diner in Mt. Airy.

2012/05/31

(Rod Millwood with his late wife, Mona, who died of ovarian cancer. Photo provided)

Part 2: Feeling Squeezed

“A lot of people see someone with a business and think they are rolling,” notes Rod Millwood, who owns a comedy club at 3rd and South Streets in Philadelphia. “But no.”

2012/05/31

Part 3: A New Landscape

“Health insurance is tricky and it’s confusing, so having the right, unbiased information is a key resource for consumers,” says Melissa Fox, spokeswoman for Pennsylvania’s Insurance Department.

2012/05/31