Tuesday's Daily Brief: Empowering Small Businesses and Highlighting What Is Working, Sequestration Begins To Sting Communities

Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Empowering Small Businesses and Highlighting What Is Working

Arianna Huffington: When we launched "Opportunity: What Is Working" last July, we envisioned the section as a place to spotlight the opportunities that do exist around job creation. Today, we add to HuffPost's family of sections dedicated to telling the stories of these opportunities, with a new section called "What Is Working: Small Businesses." Sponsored by Goldman Sachs' 10,000 Small Businesses initiative -- a $500 million investment supporting businesses in 11 cities -- the section will bring together a multitude of voices, starting conversations around small business from many angles: highlighting the role of community colleges, sharing tips from successful entrepreneurs, asking what the federal and local governments can do to support businesses, and inviting successful business owners to share tips and financial advice. In doing so, we hope to reflect the state of American small business and its vital role in the economy at large.

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