The economy is doing well, with unemployment hovering just above 4%. But there’s an obstacle keeping many business owners from taking advantage of the good times: a labor shortage making it hard to find qualified employees. In the most recent Wells Fargo/Gallup Small Business Index, 16% of small business owners cited hiring and retaining qualified […]
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Construction companies are offering higher wages to attract skilled labor to the industry, which is expanding in 2018 largely because of tax cuts, Fox Business reports. Three quarters of U.S. construction companies are looking to hire in the coming months, up from 73 percent at the same time last year, according to The Associated General Contractors of
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The cost of healthcare is one of the biggest challenges small business owners and their employees face. A new proposed rule by the Department of Labor is looking to alleviate this pain point by expanding access to healthcare through small business health plans. New Health Plan Options for Small Businesses The rule will give small
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For the past couple of years, Amazon has trialed last-mile delivery with individuals, in a program called Amazon Flex, and with small-courier companies using “white vans.” Both of these initiatives are designed to rival UPS and FedEx. As Amazon prepares for the holiday season, these programs are ramping up to take on more of the
Jen Fox was working in retail — she liked helping customers and working with people. “But I knew I didn’t want to stay there,” she says. Her supportive manager said, “You graduate from college, and we’ll give you time off for interviews.” So, Fox went to a career fair at a local hotel where rows
Google has traded out its usual logo with a doodle to mark the Labor Day holiday. The Google doodlers behind today’s doodle took their lead from the Works Progress Administration (WPA) murals produced during the 1930s. Created in 1935, the historic WPA was a federal program providing economic relief for US citizens suffering during the
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