Barack Obama, Small Business | featured news

President Barack Obama said Saturday that millions of Americans already are reaping benefits from the new health care law, including tax breaks for some small businesses and help for families with young adults.

President Barack Obama was to tout a tax credit for small businesses on Thursday in his second speech this week promoting his sweeping healthcare overhaul to a skeptical public.

Somebody in Wisconsin doesn't like President Barack Obama all that much.

An unnamed company has paid for a billboard along Highway 41 in Oshkosh that reads, "Impeach Obama."

The tagline says: "America's small businesses are failing; help us spread the message."

It was paid for by an unnamed company represented by Tom Wroblewski who told the AP the sentiment

President, who lashed out at executives who "still don't get it," presses for more lending. President Obama reiterated his call Monday for the nation's banks to increase lending, saying that he was getting too many letters from small businesses unable to borrow money.

President Barack Obama proposed on Tuesday small business tax cuts, fresh infrastructure spending and energy efficiency rebates to boost jobs, but there were few details on the scale or cost of the measures.

The head of the largest U.S. labor federation urged President Barack Obama on Tuesday to use the $700 billion Wall Street bailout fund to help cash-starved small businesses as a way to stem rising joblessness.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Big banks that got big bailout bucks should return the favor by lending more to qualified small businesses, President Barack Obama says....

President Barack Obama chastised Wall Street firms on Tuesday for resisting tighter regulations of their industry and said they had not done enough to boost lending to small businesses.

Obama is set to announce initiatives aimed at boosting credit to small businesses, including measures to make it easier for small banks to access TARP.

The Obama administration is considering using money from the $700 billion financial bailout fund to provide further assistance to the nation's struggling small businesses.