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Obama promises help for small businesses

Washington : DC : USA | about 1 month ago  
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President Barack Obama said Saturday his administration will make it easier for small businesses to get credit they need to grow and create new jobs. In his weekly radio and Internet address, Obama noted that he asked Congress this week to increase the maximum amount of some Small Business...
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  • News Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | about 1 month ago
    Insurance brokers and benefits consultants say their small business clients are seeing premiums go up an average of about 15 percent for the coming year -- double the rate of last year's increases. That would mean an annual premium that was $4,500...
  • News Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune | about 1 month ago
    With landmark health care votes expected in the coming weeks, Republicans are warning voters that the Democratic plan to expand coverage to millions who lack it will increase costs for the average American. In the GOP's radio and Internet address...
  • News Source: Chicago Tribune | about 1 month ago
    by Mark Silva President Barack Obama, touting health-care reforms which he maintains will make it easier and more affordable for small businesses to provide health care for employees, pitches it as part of an overall admninistrative strategy plan to...
  • News Source: United Press International | about 1 month ago
    President Barack Obama said Saturday his administration will make it easier for small businesses to get credit they need to grow and create new jobs. In his weekly radio and Internet address, Obama noted that he asked Congress this week to increase...
  • News Source: Voice of America | about 1 month ago
    President Barack Obama is calling on American banks to repay the favor they received in their tax-payer-funded bailout this year by giving more loans to small businesses. In his weekly address Saturday, the president says the point of the economic...
  • News Source: Uinta County News | about 1 month ago
    In his weekly address on the radio and Internet , Obama said the nation’s banks, supported by taxpayers in the economic crisis, now need “to stand by the creditworthy small businesses.” “It’s time for those banks to fulfill their...
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  • Blog Source: www.capitolhillblue.com
    In his weekly radio and Internet address, Obama said too many small business owners remain unable to get credit despite administration steps to jump-start lending, which was virtually frozen when the financial crisis took hold last year ...
  • Blog Source: features.csmonitor.com
    Obama will boost aid to banks that lend to small businesses and pushes Congress to increase caps on federal small-business loans.
  • Blog Source: freedomeden.blogspot.com
    He said the owners of Metropolitan Archives used a Small Business Administration loan to buy their building. Mr. Obama said smaller banks must put together a plan to lend to small businesses to become eligible for the additional, ...
  • Blog Source: www.dollarish.com
    In order to qualify, the banks will have to provide a lending plan to TARP, then follow up with quarterly reports. Pending approval from Congress, Obama will increase the cap on some Small Business Administration (SBA) loan programs, ...
  • Blog Source: www.allbusiness.com
    Ask any small business owner to sum up their experience with banks, and they are likely to reply with the old adage: “Banks only want to lend you money when you don't need it.” If the saying was true in good times, why does President ...
  • Blog Source: www.stylemagazine.com
    Metropolitan Archives is one of these companies. Last February, Joe and Doug were able to purchase the building we're standing in with an SBA loan – an expansion that has already helped them retain ten jobs, and one that will create ten ... And
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