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The Obama Rescue Plan Update

Today: Update on Obama's rescue plan, business groups trying to block e-verify, Solis ducks questions on the Card Check Bill, Sick Building Syndrome is real and much more.

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A Reminder to Remember Small Business in These Bailouts

Today: Resuscitating the death tax, merchant cash advances, universal paid sick days, employer-supported Army recruitment and much more.

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Obama Team to Broaden Bailout While Frank Seeks More Accountability

Today: Obama's team looks to broaden the bailout while Frank tries to increase accountability, no more H2B Visas available for immigrant workers, the advantages of leasing your equipment, guerrilla marketing and much more.

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The Obama Stimulus Plan: Heavy Tolls on the Road to Prosperity

Today: Spending our way to prosperity, the peril of hourly rates, making potential investors feel good about you, the imminent arrival of Windows 7 and much more.

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Obama's Pork-Free Stimulus on the Menu

Today: Obama calls for a pork-free stimulus plan, the five best industries for venture capital, slashing the cost of technology, behavioral marketing and much more.

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Jobless Benefits to Expand as Cities Ease Advertising Restrictions

Today: Unemployment benefits may increase, signage restrictions easing, the case for business ethics, small business security solutions, the effects of healthcare reform and much more.

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Obama Contemplates Tax Cuts as Retail Bankruptcies Expected to Soar

Today: A possible tax cut from Obama, changes to the ADA, reevaluating your business strategy, the importance of the subject line on your email and much more.

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Happy New Year from America's Best Companies

Everyone here at ABC wishes you and yours all the best in the coming year. May your businesses prosper in 2009 and beyond. We will resume the ABC Small Business Brief on Monday, January 5th, 2009. So, until then, Happy New Year! Today: Pension funding relief and raises to the minimum wage, outsourcing and much more.

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Tax Cuts Coming Despite the Economy

Today: Obama says the tax cuts will go on even as the fallout of the holiday season hits American retailers, how your business can survive a cash-flow crisis, the ADA rises again, the road to a paperless office and much more.

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Retailers Seeking Their Own Economic Stimulus

Today: Retailers are looking for some economic stimulus of their own, “Productivity Bankruptcy Day,” small business ads on MySpace, email red flags and much more.

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SBA Expands Emerging 200 Initiative, New Labor Secretary to Hit The Ground Running

Everyone here at America's Best Companies wish you and yours a wonderful holiday season and a prosperous new year. Today: News from the SBA, insight on success from Sir Richard Branson, small business wins the space race against the likes of Boeing and Lockheed-Martin, and much more.

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The IRS Collecting Less From Audits as More Businesses go the Way of the Buggy Whip

Important stories and highlights from the world of business. Today: the IRS reports lower collections from taxpayer audits, things not to do when cutting costs, a look at mobile computing strategies and much more.

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Mills to Head SBA, Agency Gets More Lender Oversight

Important stories and highlights from the world of business. Today: new SBA head and oversight, niche market strategies, confusing tech buzzwords and much more.

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Clinton Insider Gets Commodities Post, Automakers Get $17.4 Billion

Important stories and highlights from the world of business. Today: Obama picks former Clinton official to regulate commodities, Bush offers carmakers a bailout of their own, things to do now to take the sting out of tax day and much more.

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Should SBA be Elevated to Cabinet Status? Landrieu Says “Yes!”

Important stories and highlights from the world of business. Today: Small business is falling through the bailout cracks, Landrieu wants the SBA in Obama's Cabinet, grooming employees for leadership, tackling employee benefits and much more.

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