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Jonathan Miller, Chief Executive Officer of Stellar Aviation Group, talks to a reporter at Lantana Airport in Lantana, Fla. Miller says everyone agrees the president needs to be kept safe but hopes that some kind of compromise can be found to keep the facility open during Trump's visits.
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In this Jan. 24, 2017, file photo, Small Business Administration Administrator-nominee,former wrestling entertainment executive, Linda McMahon testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington,at her confirmation hearing. McMahon is on track to secure Senate confirmation to be the next leader of the Small Business Administration.
Community banks and small businesses are optimistic about changes the Trump administration and Congress have promised to laws that tightened supervision of the banking industry after the 2008 financial crisis. The number of small, local banks has declined since the Great Recession, a change that advocates feel was intensified by the paperwork the increased oversight entails.
This fact may be more apparent in rural towns that often have few or no large businesses to help generate the economic energy that funds schools, safety-net programs and public safety. That's why the Association of Washington Business and its members have expressed concern with Gov. Jay Inslee's budget proposal released in December.
In an announcement made Wednesday, small business owner Tom Mullikin announced his candidacy for South Carolina's 5th congressional district. The seat is currently held by Congressman Mick Mulvaney, who is expected to be confirmed as the White House budget director.
Almost every business has to face some kind of regulations from government agencies in order to do business in the U.S. or elsewhere. Many of those regulations are designed to protect consumers or spur competition.
President Donald Trump signed an order Monday aimed at cutting regulations on businesses, saying agencies should eliminate two regulations for every new one. The White House later released the text of the order, which added that the cost of any new regulation should be offset by eliminating regulations with the same costs to businesses.
You can learn a lot from one largely overlooked confirmation hearing. And WWE mogul Linda McMahon's confirmation hearing Tuesday morning-she's been selected to run the Small Business Administration-was nothing if not largely overlooked.
Rex Tillerson, chairman and CEO of ExxonMobil, testifies about the company's acquisition of XTO Energy before the House Energy and Environment Subcommittee on Capitol Hill in Washington January 20, 2010. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts/File Photo The tall, enigmatic fellow with shocks of white hair and an oil man's swagger seemed that natural choice for jury foreman, but he told his fellow jurors he wasn't interested in the spotlight.
Platinum Partners founder Mark Nordlicht, wearing a hoodie, exits federal court in Brooklyn, New York, U.S. on December 19, 2016. U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York Robert Capers speaks to media to announce the unsealing of an indictment charging Mark Nordlicht, the Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Platinum Partners and six other individuals with securities fraud, investment adviser fraud and conspiracy in an approximately $1 billion fraud in Brooklyn, New York City, U.S.on December 19, 2016.
Treasury Secretary nominee Steven Mnuchin waits after a meeting with Senator Orrin Hatch on Capitol Hill December 8, 2016 in Washington, DC. If confirmed, he is expected to lead Trump's tax reform efforts./ AFP PHOTO / Brendan Smialowski President-elect Donald Trump likes to say he will "drain the swamp" of special interests when he takes up residence at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
We're here in Detroit to look at what JPMorgan Chase has done with a five-year commitment to invest $100 million in the city. Why is an initiative like this good business for you as well as for Detroit? I would do it for moral reasons alone.
During the course of the 2016 presidential campaign, Americans spent too much time on the roller coaster and got addicted to it. We are now in the post-election phase of our national life, starring President-elect Donald Trump and his victory-and-transition magical mystery tour.
President Obama , as a final exercise of power, is pursuing a backdoor measure to approve $20 billion in massive taxpayer-backed deals to subsidize Boeing and other giant manufacturers. Republicans have the power the stop this raft of corporate welfare.
U.S. President Barack Obama said in 2013 that "consumers, small-business owners, and pharmacists" have benefited from the Affordable Care Act Talk that the Affordable Care Act would decimate small businesses ran rampant when the law was passed, but has it turned out to be true? The health care law has forced some small-business owners to make tough choices, with more expensive coverage requiring them to scale back or even preventing them from providing coverage to employees, they told MarketWatch. But other entrepreneurs say it has done nothing but good, allowing them to start their own businesses, stabilizing the cost of insuring employees, or simply giving them the peace of mind about getting health insurance in the future.
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While all eyes are on the Election Day matchup between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, small business owners across the country look on at various Election Day ballot initiatives that threaten their companies, employees, and communities. In four states - Arizona, Colorado, Maine, and Washington - voters face ballot initiatives asking whether they want to dramatically raise their states' minimum wage to $12 in the former three and $13.50 in the latter.
Former President Bill Clinton may be known as one of the best retail politicians in American politics, but there have been a number of instances where his off-the-cuff remarks have gotten him in trouble. The latest instance - when he said that small businesses "were getting killed" by Obamacare - is not the first time that one of his statements has caused trouble for his wife's campaign, both this year and in the 2008 race.