{"id":115925,"date":"2009-12-30T13:44:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-30T18:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/small-business-confidence-is-not-gaining-and-thats-a-bleak-sign-for-employment-2009-12"},"modified":"2009-12-30T13:44:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-30T18:44:00","slug":"small-business-conditions-horrible-again-in-december-and-thats-a-bleak-sign-for-employment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/115925","title":{"rendered":"Small Business Conditions Horrible Again In December, And That&#8217;s A Bleak Sign For Employment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discovercard.com\/business\/watch\/\">Discover Small Business Watch <\/a>index is the most up-to-date poll on conditions in the sector which has accounted for the vast majority of employment growth in all the economic recoveries of the past thirty-five years. The DSBW Index collapsed in November, to 76.5 from 88 in October. December remains unchanged. But fewer small business owners expect the economy to improve.<\/p>\n<h3>December Highlights:<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"plain-list\">\n<blockquote>\n<li>The number of small business owners who think the economy is getting worse was down to 49 percent from 53 percent in November; while 24 percent of small business owners see the economy staying the same, up from 16 percent in November; <em>25 percent see the economy getting better, down from 28 percent in November<\/em>; and 2 percent are not sure.<\/li>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.atimes.net\/?p=1293\"><strong>Read the rest at Inner Workings &#8211;&gt;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/small-business-confidence-is-not-gaining-and-thats-a-bleak-sign-for-employment-2009-12#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/small-business-bankruptcies-shoot-up-81-in-california-2009-12\">Small Business Bankruptcies Shoot Up 81% In California<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/small-business-carnage-shows-the-real-reason-jobs-arent-being-created-in-america-2009-12\">The Small Business Carnage That Shows The Real Reason Jobs Aren&#8217;t Being Created In America<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/small-business-optimism-swoons-2009-12\">Small Business Optimism Swoons<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/bKgARy18Uzw\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Discover Small Business Watch index is the most up-to-date poll on conditions in the sector which has accounted for the vast majority of employment growth in all the economic recoveries of the past thirty-five years. The DSBW Index collapsed in November, to 76.5 from 88 in October. December remains unchanged. But fewer small business [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":632,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/632"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}