The businesses that line the main streets and side streets of our local communities are growing faster than the U.S. GDP – 3.1 percent versus 2.7, according to the latest Store Front Business Index. The 3.4 million businesses we call “Store Fronts” are seeing growth...
Richmond Virginia going into the 2016 presidential election today is a very different place than the Richmond Virginia on the going into the 1996 race 20 years ago. The most obvious change is political – Richmond’s home state of Virginia in 1996 was solidly red...
Optimism among small business owners in the United States may be fading. The Wall Street Journal noted on Wednesday (Feb. 10) that an index used in order to gauge sanguine expectations among small businesses was off by 1.3 points in January to a reading of...
January 23, 2017
There’s the perception that, with low unemployment, job creation has been on a tear in the United States among small businesses. Then there’s the reality. The Wall Street Journal reports that the median small business has been adding new employees at a glacial pace, with fewer than one full-time position put on the books annually. […]
