Small Business

How Millennials Could Make or Break the Brexit Vote

By Suman Bhattacharyya

In the final days before the referendum on Britain leaving the EU, poll numbers show the “leave” and “remain” sides in a dead heat. The Financial Times Brexit poll of polls has “leave” at 45 percent...
13 Tax Tips for Self-Employed Workers in 2016

By Janna Herron

The gig economy often means trickier taxes for self-employed workers. A third of the American workforce falls into that category, according to TurboTax, including 3.2 million on-demand workers, like...
How To Become an Everyday Millionaire…From Those Who’ve Done It

By Janna Herron

When you picture a millionaire’s lifestyle, does townhouse living or budgeting only $40,000 a year come to mind? Probably not. But it’s that type of frugal living that helped four everyday people to...
The Naughty Employee Costing Your Company More Than $12,000

By Millie Dent

We all have those colleagues who criticize you to co-workers behind your back, make rude remarks about your outfit or demand extra work from everyone but themselves. These toxic behaviors might be...
Employees Are Paying More – Much More – for Health Care

By Beth Braverman

While wages have been stagnant over the past decade, the amount that workers pay for employer-sponsored health insurance has more than doubled. Average employees at mid-size and large companies paid...

Behind Every Successful Woman, There’s a Clock

By Beth Braverman

Author Laura Vanderkam has made a career out of studying how people spend their time. For her latest book, I Know How She Does It: How Successful Women Make the Most of Their Time , Vanderkam looked...
10 Worst States for Working Mothers

By Marine Cole

Working mothers may want to avoid moving to the South, where the quality of child care leaves a lot to be desired and professional opportunities are scarce.
What Successful People Don't Say at Work

By Travis Bradberry, Inc.com

You can't build a strong professional network if you don't open up to your colleagues; but doing so is tricky, because revealing the wrong things can have a devastating effect on your career.
10 Worst Cities to Start a Business in 2015

By Marine Cole

If you’re about to start a business, you may want to stay away from the New York City area and from the Los Angeles and San Francisco areas.
10 Best Cities to Start a Business

By Marine Cole

Some of the best cities to start a business are located in the South, where resources for small companies are often more available and more affordable than in Silicon Valley or the New York area.

10 Hot Silicon Valley Startups You Need to Watch

By BOONSRI DICKINSON, Business Insider

The Bay Area tech scene is all about startups. Here are ten that are worth your attention.
The Small Business Tax Break That Favors the Rich

By Bruce Bartlett, The Fiscal Times

This week, the House Ways and Means Committee reported H.R. 9, the Small Business Tax Cut Act, which would give every business in the United States with fewer than 500 employees a deduction equal to...
How Obamacare Derailed the Economic Recovery

By Liz Peek

Here we go again. All eyes are on the Supreme Court as it wrestles with whether or not President Obama’s healthcare bill is constitutional. The country is divided on the merits of the law, but this...
The Hidden Flaw in the Bipartisan JOBS Act

By Michelle Hirsch, The Fiscal Times

In a victory for business advocates, the House passed a bill which would enhance small companies’ ability to raise capital from investors in their early years and temper some of their regulatory...
7 Ex-Jailbirds Who Made It Big in Business

By Steve Yoder, The Fiscal Times

When potential employers shunned them for their criminal records, these seven ex-cons turned around and started their own companies.

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