Small companies were still reeling from the recession in 2011 when Sam Graves became chairman of the House Small Business Committee.

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Long Beach, Calif.-based FreeConferenceCall.com, a provider of free conferencing, has opened its annual Santa’s Hotline for the season.

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The city has reached contract agreements with a coalition of eight unions representing almost 12,000 city employees who are supervisors in the police, fire, correction and sanitation departments, Mayor Bill de Blasio said.

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Higher tax collections will give Utah lawmakers an extra $638 million to spend on projects and programs next year, according to new estimates released Thursday.

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Wisconsin’s most powerful business lobbying group is calling on the Legislature to pass a right-to-work law, something Republican Gov. Scott Walker has repeatedly said distracts from his agenda.

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Restaurateurs and hoteliers urged a state board Tuesday to leave the current subminimum wage for tipped workers intact, while service workers called for an increase to the basic minimum wage paid to other employees.

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Penguin Random House says it plans to lay off nearly 300 workers at its warehouse and distribution center in upstate New York.

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Abercrombie & Fitch’s CEO Michael Jeffries is retiring, effective immediately.

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United Technologies is bringing back a longtime executive to serve as chief financial officer.

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Sometimes it seems that for as many hours there are in the day, there are three times as many interruptions that take you away from work that needs to get done.  

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