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...Small businesses generated 65% of the job growth between 1993 and 2008, and represent about half of the private-sector employment in the U.S., according to the Small Business Administration. "So they are going to be important for us to have a true recovery that includes job growth," says White...
...Economists and other experts say it's critical that small businesses recover for the broader economy to truly rebound. "Smaller firms, with fewer than 20 employees, account for 25% of all jobs, but they generated 40% of the [job] growth in the last expansion in 2001," says Brusuelas. He believes the Obama Administration needs to guarantee bigger loans to small firms through the Small Business Administration, and offer either a significant tax credit or tax cut to companies that hire new workers...
...tremendous cost of this war will also be paid in larger taxes, slowed-down growth, and the inability to pay for jobs and education because we are spending the money on a bad bet in Afghanistan,” he said...
...Egypt with U.S. funding - by 2011, the U.S. will have spent $260 million - the battalions were deployed in Jenin, Nablus and Hebron. They cleaned out the armed gangs, caught drug traffickers and mediated between feuding Palestinian clans. With less crime and traffic eased slightly by fewer Israeli roadblocks, economic growth has risen 7% this year in the West Bank...
...countries saying that it is working well. Perhaps not surprisingly, France led the world with 43% who say capitalism is "fatally flawed." Le Monde, meanwhile, reported on Saturday that the economic crisis has revived support for decroissance, a leftist, ecologically driven philosophy that questions the belief in economic growth as a public good...