The National Retail Federation is not expecting this year’s holiday shopping season to be the sort of thing that will make the hearts of retailers glad. At least not much.
Overall receipts are expected to decline by 1%; all the price slashing that will be needed to lure wary and broke customers into stores will eat [...]
Back in February, when the economy was still in free fall and a lot of people were wondering what we should do about it, the National Women’s Business Council and the Small Business Administration convened a summit of leaders from the women’s business community. The 2009 Women’s Business Summit, which was entitled The Economy Through [...]
It has been almost seven long years but the SBA has finally published a set of proposed rules to implement the Women’s Procurement Program that has been a bone of contention for six of them. Unfortunately, the SBA studied the RAND Corporation’s research and came to the conclusion that there were only four relatively obscure [...]
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