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Daily Archives: June 8, 2016

The State of Small Business in America 2016

“Helping existing small businesses scale offers enormous, and largely untapped, potential in creating new jobs and generating economic development in the United States—this according to a new report, The State of Small Business in America (pdf) issued by Babson College. “This Babson Small Business report shows that we all benefit if we are able to foster a vibrant entrepreneurial ecosystem that best supports ongoing small business growth and job creation in America,” said Babson College President Kerry Healey.  “Public and private sectors must work together to support small businesses, which comprise 99 percent of all U.S. employer firms and which account for more than half of the private sector’s net new jobs over the past two decades.” The purpose of the report is to advance the small business owner’s perspective on how to grow in the U.S. business landscape specifically around: access to capital, the regulatory environment, workforce, and technology. It is based on the feedback of over 1,800 respondents across the country, all of which have at least four employees and at least $150,000 in revenues. The respondent pool consists of small businesses specifically identified as growth-oriented through participation in the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses program, along with a comparative random sample of businesses by size and age criteria without any explicit growth identification…”

The Distribution of Household Income and Federal Taxes, 2013

“In 2013, according to the Congressional Budget Office’s estimates, average household market income—a comprehensive income measure that consists of labor income, business income, capital income (including capital gains), and retirement income—was approximately $86,000. Government transfers, which include benefits from programs such as Social Security, Medicare, and unemployment insurance, averaged approximately $14,000 per household. The sum… Continue Reading

PubHub from Bing – portal for news publishers to submit their sites

Bing Blog: “In the era of push notifications and shared posts, publishers face constant pressure to get their content discovered and in front of as many readers as possible. To support the publishing community in a way that delivers on our users’ needs, we are launching the Bing News PubHub, a portal that enables more… Continue Reading

Distribution of Performance Ratings Across the Federal Government, 2013

Federal Workforce: Distribution of Performance Ratings Across the Federal Government, 2013, GAO-16-520R: Published: May 9, 2016. Publicly Released: Jun 8, 2016. “In calendar year 2013 (the most recent data available at the time of our review), of approximately 1.2 million permanent, non-Senior Executive Service (SES) employees at the 24 Chief Financial Officers (CFO) Act agencies,… Continue Reading

Latinos Increasingly Confident in Personal Finances, See Better Economic Times Ahead

Pew – “Latinos have become considerably more upbeat about their personal finances and optimistic about their financial future since the Great Recession, according to newly released results from a national survey of Latino adults. The survey also shows that Latinos have pulled even with the general U.S. population in their views of their personal finances… Continue Reading

Chronicle of Higher Education Title IX tracker

Sara Lipka June 02, 2016 – “Several years into a heated national discussion of campus sexual assault, there’s still not much consensus on what will signal progress. One of the most active fronts is federal enforcement: Under the gender-equity law known as Title IX, the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights is now investigating 192… Continue Reading