Posts Tagged ‘ microbusiness employers ’

Jobs Data Shows Micro-Employer Pain

Aug 23rd, 2009 | By Dawn Rivers Baker | Category: Research

It is often quite difficult to figure out how the nation’s small businesses are doing at any given moment in time. You can talk to a few small business owners to ask them but that only gets you anecdotal evidence. You might turn to the added formality of the National Federation of Independent Business’s monthly [...]



Micro Employers Not Picking Up Job Loss Slack

Nov 24th, 2008 | By Dawn Rivers Baker | Category: Research

Regular readers may recall the many times I’ve mentioned that, during the last recession, microbusiness employers with fewer than five employees continued to create jobs throughout ten of the twelve calendar quarters during which larger firms experienced labor market declines. In other words, it appeared that microbusiness employers were able to cushion the shock of [...]



Auto-IRA Plan Bad News for Micro Employers

May 5th, 2008 | By Dawn Rivers Baker | Category: Politics & Policy

Here’s a question for you microbusiness employers out there: what would you think of a plan proposed in Congress that would require you to set up a payroll direct deposit into an IRA for as many of your employees as wanted it? Of course, we want to encourage people to save for retirement but, as [...]