» Monthly Archives: September 2009

New Retirement Rules: 6 Ways to Ease Plan Costs

By: Rayan Ali on 09/29/09 @ 1:00 am

This article was written by Wall Street Journal’s Diana Ransom.
This is the second article in a two-part series on small business retirement. Here, we looked at the higher fees business owners and their employees can expect to pay. In this article, we discuss how to mitigate them.
Many small-business owners owners are making considerable sacrifices to [...]

Six Ways to Speed Up SBA Loan Approval

By: Rayan Ali on 09/24/09 @ 1:00 am

This article was reported by Diana Ransom of wsj.com
Attention small-business owners: Time is running out on an opportunity to access fee-free business loans that are guaranteed up to 90%.
Earlier this year, the Small Business Administration set aside $375 million to temporarily eliminate loan fees and increase the agency’s loan guarantee to 90% for certain loans. [...]

Number of Uninsured Grew, Poverty Rate Hit Eleven-Year High in 2008, Report Find

By: Rayan Ali on 09/22/09 @ 1:00 am

AS reported in the Philanthropy News Digest
according to a new report from the U.S. Census Bureau, the number of Americans without health insurance increased in 2008, while the poverty rate hit an eleven-year high, the Associated Press reports.
The report, Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2008 (74 pages, PDF), found that [...]

New Retirement Rules: What Small Businesses Need to Know

By: Rayan Ali on 09/17/09 @ 1:00 am

This article was written by WSJ’s Diana Ransom.
This is the first article in a two-part SmartMoney series on small business retirement. Here, we look at the higher fees business owners and their employees can expect to pay. In the second article, we discuss how to mitigate them.
Socking away retirement funds is becoming more expensive for [...]

Healthcare Benefit Costs Undermine Nonprofits’ Fiscal Health, Survey Finds

By: Rayan Ali on 09/15/09 @ 1:00 am

As reported in the Philanthropy News Digest.
For many nonprofits, escalating healthcare costs are challenging their ability to provide attractive benefit packages to their employees, a recent survey by the Johns Hopkins Nonprofit Listening Post Project finds.
In a July survey of 412 nonprofits, 98 percent of the responding organizations that offer health benefits indicated they are [...]

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