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Accounting Today Homepage | March 04, 2020

The pace of small-business job growth accelerated for the third month in a row in February, according to payroll giant Paychex, but the rate of hourly earnings growth slipped. The Paychex | IHS Markit Small Business Employment, released Tuesday, showed a 0.15 percent increase in employment growth in February, and 0.22 percent in the past quarter, though it was down 0.61 percent from last year. Hourly earnings growth dipped to 2.74 percent in February. Weekly hours worked also fell for the second...

SMALL BUSINESS TRENDS, INDUSTRY OUTLOOK

Blueshift | August 09, 2022

Blueshift, the leading Smart Hub platform for intelligent customer engagement, today announced Great Place to Work® and Fortune magazine have honored Blueshift as one of the 2022 Best Small Workplaces. Blueshift strives to build a healthy, supportive culture where employees feel confident to take on new challenges while also encouraged to work together as a team to make an impact. To determine the Best Small Workplaces list, Great Place to Work analyzed the survey responses of over 30...

BUSINESS STRATEGY

MeridianLink | March 11, 2022

MeridianLink, Inc.®, a leading provider of modern software platforms for financial institutions and consumer reporting agencies, today announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire StreetShares®, a mission-driven financial technology company that provides digital small business lending technology to banks and credit unions. StreetShares is an award-winning financial technology company that started in 2014 as a low-cost, digital lender to veteran-owned small bu...

The Spokesman-Review | January 21, 2020

With the U.S. Senate passing the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) last week, Washington small businesses are one step closer to benefiting from the trade agreement. Considering Canada and Mexico are the U.S.’s largest trading partners combined with our state’s shared border with Canada, the impact of the USMCA is substantial to small firms in Washington state. Consider this: 90% of companies that export goods from Washington and 85% of companies that export goods from Idaho are s...