Karen R. Harned

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Karen R. Harned is the executive director of the National Federation of Independent Business Small Business Legal Center.

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    Five Years After the Recession, Only 21% of Small Businesses Say They’ve Recovered

    Karen R. Harned
    More than five years after the end of the “Great Recession,” only 21 percent of small businesses* say they have fully recovered. During the recession, lack of sales ranked as the top problem small business faced. Taxes placed second, and “government regulations and red tape” placed third. And since 2012, at least one in five…
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