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Your Small Business Questions, Answered
Send us your questions on challenges you face in your business. Journalist Karen E. Klein will interview experts and distill their insights into answers.
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Cutting Health-Care Costs for Aging Employees
Employees who don't participate in a company plan are still counted in its rating pool. To reduce costs, offer an attractive retirement plan -
Benefits
How to Hire: Seven Questions for Mort Mandel
A nonagenarian who turned an auto parts shop into a $2.8 billion company describes the importance of picking 'A' candidates instead of 'B's -
Policy
How Much Risk Is Too Much for Small Businesses?
States consider limits on how small employers use self-funded health plans to save on insurance costs and skirt some requirements of Obamacare -
Policy
Obamacare's Small Business Exchanges Get Watered Down
In many states, plans to let small employers offer workers a menu of health plans have been put on hold for a year -
Smart Answers
Advice for Small Employers Confused by Obamacare
What size businesses are affected? Does it pay to drop coverage? Industry experts weigh in on a handful of common questions about the law's forthcoming requirements -
Small Business
'Lean In, Fall Over, Get Back Up:' Wendy Lea on Marissa Mayer and Sheryl Sandberg
A Silicon Valley veteran weighs in on the recent talk around two of the tech industry's power women -
Policy
Small Employers Are Clueless About Obamacare
A majority of business owners don't grasp the basics of the law, a new survey suggests -
Benefits
For Obamacare to Work, Small Employers Must Embrace Exchanges
High costs keep many small businesses from offering workers health coverage. Exchanges being set up this year could cut prices—if enough people participate -
Benefits
Small Employers Add Jobs, Obamacare Opportunities, SBA Cuts Overblown: March 11
A daily roundup of the most compelling stories about small business and entrepreneurship -
Benefits
Why Your Employer May Drop Your Health-Care Plan
If workers get affordable policies elsewhere next year, American businesses may drop group health plans -
Policy
Lawmakers Enlist Small Business to Back a Minimum Wage Increase
New legislation would raise federal minimum wage to $10.10 by 2016—and its proponents say small business supports it -
Policy
Obamacare Offers Low-Wage Workers Coverage. Will They Buy It?
ADP data show how low-wage employees skip coverage as premiums eat up a greater share of their income -
Advice
Divorced, but Still in Business Together
After a couple has separated, exes with mutual trust, maturity, and clearly defined roles can help their jointly run business continue to prosper -
Advice
When It Pays for the Founder to Take a Break
While it's complicated and risky for founders to take a hiatus from running the show, the business can benefit from the new perspective -
Policy
What’s Driving the Spike in Small Business Acquisitions
Beyond beating tax hikes and taking advantage of rising valuations, difficulty finding skilled talent is helping fuel the increase
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Benefits
What the Self-Employed Don't Know About Obamacare Subsidies
In 2014, individuals earning up to about $45,000 annually through self-employment could be eligible for subsidized health insurance coverage -
Financing
Pitching a Startup While Pregnant
"Either you just had a big meal or you're pregnant." Tech entrepreneurs who pitched to outside investors while expecting recount their experiences -
Smart Answers
Advice for Small Employers Confused by Obamacare
What size businesses are affected? Does it pay to drop coverage? Industry experts weigh in on a handful of common questions about the law's forthcoming requirements -
Advice
How to Recruit the Best of the Class of 2013
Seven tips for small businesses competing with corporate recruiters for the most talented grads -
Advice
Advice for Small Employers Confused by Obamacare: Part 2
Can benefits vary depending on employee type? Are multiple businesses counted in employee tallies? Industry experts weigh in on questions about Affordable Care Act requirements -
Policy
What Obamacare Means for Small Employers in 2013
One of every four business owners are uninsured, studies say, and small employers are more likely to terminate coverage -
Benefits
Why Your Employer May Drop Your Health-Care Plan
If workers get affordable policies elsewhere next year, American businesses may drop group health plans -
Advice
Risking Retirement on Selling the Business
Many small business owners gamble their retirement on selling out rather than diversifying their assets. They also retire significantly later than employees do, two new studies show -
Advice
How Startups Negotiate Favorable Leases
As real estate markets improve in some parts of the country, attorneys share tactics for businesses with seemingly little leverage -
Advice
What Does Your Retirement Plan Really Cost?
New disclosure rules require retirement plan providers to detail all costs associated with their 401(k)s. But they don’t apply to proposals from providers pitching their plans to employers -
Policy
End of Days for Independent Pharmacies?
Awaiting an FTC decision, owners of small pharmacies are worried the proposed Express Scripts-Medco merger will put them out of business -
Policy
Obamacare Offers Low-Wage Workers Coverage. Will They Buy It?
ADP data show how low-wage employees skip coverage as premiums eat up a greater share of their income -
Policy
Obamacare's Small Business Exchanges Get Watered Down
In many states, plans to let small employers offer workers a menu of health plans have been put on hold for a year -
Policy
Small Employers Are Clueless About Obamacare
A majority of business owners don't grasp the basics of the law, a new survey suggests -
Benefits
For Obamacare to Work, Small Employers Must Embrace Exchanges
High costs keep many small businesses from offering workers health coverage. Exchanges being set up this year could cut prices—if enough people participate
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Benefits
What the Self-Employed Don't Know About Obamacare Subsidies
In 2014, individuals earning up to about $45,000 annually through self-employment could be eligible for subsidized health insurance coverage -
Financing
Pitching a Startup While Pregnant
"Either you just had a big meal or you're pregnant." Tech entrepreneurs who pitched to outside investors while expecting recount their experiences -
Advice
How to Recruit the Best of the Class of 2013
Seven tips for small businesses competing with corporate recruiters for the most talented grads -
Advice
Divorced, but Still in Business Together
After a couple has separated, exes with mutual trust, maturity, and clearly defined roles can help their jointly run business continue to prosper -
Policy
Small Employers Are Clueless About Obamacare
A majority of business owners don't grasp the basics of the law, a new survey suggests -
Smart Answers
Advice for Small Employers Confused by Obamacare
What size businesses are affected? Does it pay to drop coverage? Industry experts weigh in on a handful of common questions about the law's forthcoming requirements -
Advice
When Moms Who Run Businesses Take Maternity Leave
Marissa Mayer's plan to "work throughout" her brief maternity leave sparked vigorous debate. Absent much of the discussion: how entrepreneurs juggle their newborns and their work -
Policy
Small Business Makes a Risky Bet on Health Care
A shift toward self-insuring could threaten health reform -
Policy
End of Days for Independent Pharmacies?
Awaiting an FTC decision, owners of small pharmacies are worried the proposed Express Scripts-Medco merger will put them out of business -
Advice
Advice for Small Employers Confused by Obamacare: Part 2
Can benefits vary depending on employee type? Are multiple businesses counted in employee tallies? Industry experts weigh in on questions about Affordable Care Act requirements -
Benefits
Why Your Employer May Drop Your Health-Care Plan
If workers get affordable policies elsewhere next year, American businesses may drop group health plans
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Advice
How to Recruit the Best of the Class of 2013
Seven tips for small businesses competing with corporate recruiters for the most talented grads -
Financing
Pitching a Startup While Pregnant
"Either you just had a big meal or you're pregnant." Tech entrepreneurs who pitched to outside investors while expecting recount their experiences -
Policy
Obamacare's Small Business Exchanges Get Watered Down
In many states, plans to let small employers offer workers a menu of health plans have been put on hold for a year -
Benefits
What the Self-Employed Don't Know About Obamacare Subsidies
In 2014, individuals earning up to about $45,000 annually through self-employment could be eligible for subsidized health insurance coverage -
Policy
On Health Care, Small Business Just Wants to Move On
Now that Obamacare is alive and well, small businesses want to know how to comply
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