Small businesses are not the enemy; they are the economy, the community and your neighbor. Yet, the small business community has been consistently hit with unfunded mandates from city legislation. The city is proposing additional policies that are extremely harmful to small businesses including supermarkets, bodegas, and restaurants, small business that are largely dependent on […]

It is no secret that the economic climate in the Tri-State area is not great. From high taxes, to burdensome regulations, to nickel and dime fees, making a go of it in New York, particularly as a small business gets harder by the day. Unfortunately, as publications such as Bloomberg and the New York Times […]

It is difficult for small businesses to survive in general and in New York State that reality is even more stark, yet despite all the difficulties, small business growth in New York slightly outpaces the rest of the nation, as per a new report from State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli. Over the last five years […]

For the last year and half State regulators discussed changes to on-call scheduling rules, which were widely panned by the business community. The most recent iteration drew jeers from business and labor alike leading the Department of Labor the scrap the whole thing. The goal of the rule change was to give some retail and […]

As any consumer, supplier, or small business owner can attest, e-commerce has completely changed the game. Therefore, The American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) released an analysis of the impacts that emerging e-commerce trends are having on the trucking industry, such as the challenges and opportunities that more regionalized retail supply chains and the proliferation of […]