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The Wells Fargo/Gallup Small Business Index rose to 23 in April, up from 15 in January and its highest level since July 2008. The higher optimism is due more to positive future economic expectations than to views of current conditions.

Nearly half of small-business owners who are not currently hiring point to potential healthcare costs (48%) and government regulations (46%), in addition to concerns about weak revenues and the status of the U.S. economy, as reasons.

More U.S. small-business owners intend to increase (22%) than decrease (8%) the number of jobs at their company in the next year, the biggest margin in four years, according to the new Wells Fargo/Gallup Small Business Index survey.

Half of small-business owners (51%) hired new workers in 2010, according to the Wells Fargo/Gallup Small Business Index survey. However, of these, 42% hired fewer new employees than they needed -- likely a major reason job growth was so anemic ...

Small-business owners in the United States are most likely to say complying with government regulations is the most important problem facing them today, according to a new Wells Fargo/Gallup Small Business Index poll. One in three small-business ...

Small-business owners turned less optimistic about future revenues and new hiring even prior to the events affecting the economy in recent weeks and the plunge in Americans' economic confidence, according to the Wells Fargo-Gallup Small Business ...

At least seven in 10 U.S. small-business owners say a better sales outlook, more certainty about their operating environment, and lower federal taxes will make them more likely to make capital investments in the next 12 months.

The economy and unemployment nearly tied in Americans' perceptions of the nation's "most important problem" during the first five months of 2011. Moreover, the two issues ranked either first or second among all major U.S. subgroups, including by ...

Roughly two-thirds of Republicans across most major gender, age, educational, and income lines describe themselves as "pro-life," while about a quarter call themselves "pro-choice." By contrast, Democrats' support for the "pro-choice" label ...

U.S. small-business owners expect credit to be more easily available over the next 12 months, though more still say credit will be difficult to get than say it will be easy. Three in four feel confident they can get credit if needed.