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Job Creation Study

NFIB Recommendations for Job Growth

  • The National Federation of Independent Business Research Foundation has compiled a list of five key recommendations that should be considered in order to assist small businesses regain their traditional role as job creators. Small business has created about two-thirds of the net new jobs in the United States over the last 35 years. Unfortunately, this recession has severely limited small business job generation ability.  Read the recommendations (PDF)»

Small Business Economic Trends

SBET Report Cover NFIB Small Business Economic Trends, February 2010
The NFIB Index of Small Business Optimism gained 1.3 points, rising to 89.3 (1986=100), 8.3 points higher than the survey’s second lowest reading reached in March 2009 (the lowest reading was 80.1 in 1980:2). Optimism has clearly stalled in spite of the improvements in the economy in the second half of 2009. Small business owners entered 2010 the same way they left 2009 – depressed. 

February 2010 Survey

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Small Business Problems & Priorities

Small Business Problems & Priorities study Problems & Priorities
The cost of health insurance remains the top problem for small business in America—-as it has been for two decades. Read the survey results from the seventh edition of NFIB's Small Business Problems and Priorities survey, which is based on the responses of 3,530 small business owners.

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