» Monthly Archives: September 2009
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 [...]
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 [...]
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), [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]