People generally don’t care how something is done. They care about whether it works or not. Sometimes, though, how something is done is the important thing.

Beginning in 2014, the HIT will cost small businesses and their employees $102 billion in the first 10 years, and $208 billion over the next 10 years

The NFIB Index of Small Business Optimism increased 1.9 points in February, to 90.8. While a nice improvement over the last several reports, the Index remains on par with the 2008 average and below the trough of the 1991-92 and 2001-02 recessions.

Small-business owner confidence did not rebound in December, according to the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) Small Business Optimism Index.

The Oklahoma office of the National Federation of Independent Business today announced the creation of “Scholarships to Success” presented by NFIB Young Entrepreneur Foundation and the Lobeck Taylor Family Foundation.

The holiday shopping season is crucial to the state’s small businesses, which are still recovering from the slowdown in the economy. State-specific data isn’t available, but according to the NFIB Small-Business Optimism Index for October, the number one problem facing small businesses remains weak sales.

September was another month of low expectations and pessimism for the small-business community, with the NFIB Small Business Optimism Index losing 0.1 points and falling to 92.8.

NFIB/Oklahoma is joining other business groups in supporting State Question 766, which will overturn a 2009 state Supreme Court decision allowing a tax on intangible property such as customer lists, professional licenses, insurance policies and business logos.

In spite of a disappointing jobs report, the NFIB Small Business Optimism Index gained 1.7 points, rising to 92.9, in the month of August.

The National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB), the nation’s leading small-business association, today named 292 members of Congress as Guardians of Small Business for their outstanding voting record on behalf of America’s small-business owners in the 112th Congress.