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The company’s Small Business Scorecard optimism score inched up to 65% this month from 63% in December. Optimism has grown steadily since a low of 33% in September.
SurePayroll’s data indicated a hiring decline of -0.2% last month, with wages holding flat. The South is the only region of the country that showed slightly positive growth in both hiring (0.1%) and wages (0.3%) since last month. The rest of the country was again in the red, aside from flat wages (0%) in the West.
Michael Cohn, editor-in-chief of AccountingToday.com, has been covering business and technology for a variety of publications since 1985. Prior to joining Accounting Today and WebCPA, he worked for … Read full bio
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