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Small businesses fared the worst during the recent recession and hiring by small businesses has been slower to recover after this recession than it was  following past recessions.  Robust economic growth does not occur unless small businesses are confident, healthy, and hiring.  With a fragile national recovery from recession that has not quickly helped to repair the balance sheets of most small businesses, and with a number of important public policies (regulatory, tax, health care etc.) still uncertain, it is not surprising that small businesses have been less than sanguine about the prospects for the economy and reluctant to hire.   That may be changing, however, as the NFIB’s national index of small business optimism has begun to increase.  The NFIB index is a pretty good predictor of the direction of job growth in NH and its latest up-tick is consistent with last month’s increase in payroll employment in New Hampshire.

This entry was posted on November 28, 2012 at 12:03 pm and is filed under job growth, NH Economy, Small Business. You can subscribe via RSS 2.0 feed to this post's comments.

Tags: employment growth, NFIB, NH, optimism, Small businesses