Small businesses were among the hardest hit in the Great Recession, accounting for more than 60 percent of the total jobs lost. The economic crisis was one focused on the banking sector, which is one reason for the disproportionately high impact on America's small businesses, which tend to be...

Small businesses are core to America's economic competitiveness. Not only do they employ half of the nation's private sector workforce - about 120 million people - but since 1995 they have created approximately two-thirds of the net new jobs in our country. Yet in recent years, small businesses...

Small businesses are core to America's economic competitiveness. Not only do they employ half of the nation's private sector workforce – about 120 million people – but since 1995 they have created approximately two-thirds of the net new jobs in our country. Yet in recent years, small...