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Uncertainty was identified as the primary reason that business owners are not hiring in a recent survey conducted by the National Federation of Independent Business. “Uncertainty over business conditions” was cited by 41 percent of the respondents in a survey of 750 business owners with under 250 employees, selected from Dunn & Bradstreet files. And, 51 percent of those cited “political uncertainty” as the source of some or all of their concerns that prevented them from expanding their business (Each “impediment” was ranked on a scale of 1 to 7, the percentages presented here are based on the percent of owners selecting the top 2 severity ranks).
Poor market demand, was cited by 35% of the small business owners as a reason for not hiring.
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The Supreme Court of the United States announced that it has chosen, among numerous cases on the same topic, the challenge brought by the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) as the case the Court will rule on to determine the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
NFIB President and CEO Dan Danner and Karen Harned, executive director of NFIB's Small-Business Legal Center, issued the following statements in response to the news:
Could there be a more perfect conversion of symbolism about what is wrong with the American economy than what will take place on Sept. 5 in Detroit? There, a president of the United States, whose regulatory excesses have stifled meaningful job creation, will make a Labor Day speech to union workers now only a faint representation of their former numbers in a city whose major industries were rescued not by innovation, but by a massive Berlin airlift of taxpayer dollars.
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