Get started 'On' May 23: Small business sales rising, little dairy farms ...

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What's going 'on':

Small business sales, employing increasing: Small firms are enjoying stronger sales and employing some-more workers, according to the latest study by CareerBuilder and Harris Interactive. Nearly one-third (32 percent) pronounced their sales increasing over a final dual buliding and scarcely half (46 percent) design sales to boost over a subsequent dual quarters.

SBA, AARP partner to support comparison entrepreneurs: The Small Business Administration on Wednesday announced a new partnership with a AARP to yield conversing and training to people over a age of 50 who wish to start or grow a tiny business. Collectively, a groups devise to yield services to 100,000 "encore entrepreneurs."

Y-Combinator accepts biggest category yet: The Silicon Valley-based incubator has supposed 80 fledgling companies for a arriving class, a largest one to date, according to partner Hajeet Taggar. The spike in numbers comes tiny months after a organisation pronounced it would start usurpation start-up teams but a fully-formed idea.

Keep an eye 'on':

Small dairy farms disappearing:Though a series of dairy cows in a republic has remained sincerely stable, a series of dairy farms has been dropping as tiny farms possibly go out of business or consolidate, according to new rural data. The series of dairies nationally has forsaken from scarcely 92,000 in 2002 to reduction than 70,000 in 2007.

Taxmageddon could hint renewed recession: A multiple of taxation hikes and spending cuts scheduled to take outcome subsequent year would suck $607 billion out of a economy in 2013, according to forecasts expelled by a inactive Congressional Budget Office. That would thrust a republic behind into a retrogression for during slightest a initial half of a year.

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