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Small Business Credit in a Deep Recession

Small Business Credit in a Deep Recession (PDF)

  • NFIB's Research Foundation released a new national small business poll today that takes a deeper look at what the underlying credit problems are for small businesses.  The report, Small Business Credit in a Deep Recession (PDF), shows that access to credit has become increasingly more difficult for a segment of the population and identifies the key contributing factors to the credit problem.

Small Business Economic Trends

SBET Report Cover NFIB Small Business Economic Trends, March 2010
The NFIB Index of Small Business Optimism lost 1.3 points in February, falling back to the December reading of 88.0 (1986=100), only seven points higher than the survey’s second lowest reading reached in March 2009 (the lowest reading was 80.1 in 1980:2). The persistence of Index readings below 90 is unprecedented in survey history.

March 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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