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.

Why Americans Are Skipping More Vacation Days

By Sheryl Nance Nash, The Fiscal Times

Even as the economy rebounds, Americans are taking fewer vacation days.
Job Growth Quickens, Jobless Rate Lowest Since 2008

By Lucia Mutikani, Reuters

Employment grew faster than expected in November as the hit from superstorm Sandy on payrolls was less forceful than many feared. At the same time, the jobless rate fell to a near four-year low, but...
10 Real Estate Trends to Watch in 2013

By Steve Yoder, The Fiscal Times

After five grueling years, Americans are finally feeling optimistic about the housing market. But that doesn’t mean everyone wins: Here are 10 trends to watch in the next year.
If You Can't Get a Job, You May Have Been 'Cliffed'

By Alllison Linn, CNBC

The job market has slowly been improving, but anyone who has looked for a job lately knows that it's still far from easy to land a position. Economists say there's a good reason for that: Employers...
Cliff Stalemate Takes a Huge Toll on Manufacturing

By Edward Krudy, Reuters

Manufacturing unexpectedly contracted in November to its lowest level in more than three years, as companies worried about whether lawmakers in Washington could reach a budget deal in time avert a...

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