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Many Small-Business Owners Will Work Until They Drop

A recent Wells Fargo/Gallup Small Business Index survey shows that fewer than one in five small-business owners plan to stop working and retire over the long term. While nearly two in three expect their businesses to keep going after they stop ...

Can Small Businesses Succeed Without Even Buying?

While it is too early to say what four more years of the Bush presidency augur for small businesses, results from the most recent Wells Fargo/Gallup Small Business Index survey present a mixed outlook for this sector. The majority of small ...

Small Businesses, Big Dividends?

Few small business owners seem to have regrets about their vocation for the most part, and the majority also claim to be better off financially than they would be working for someone else. But just how robust are small business owners' personal ...

Small Business Index: Will the "Soft Patch" Last?

Small businesses are known to react more sharply than large businesses do to economic headwinds, and thus they can provide a leading indicator as to where the business cycle is headed. Recent data from the Wells Fargo/Gallup Small Business Index ...

Gallup Student Poll Technical Report

Gallup Student Poll Technical Report

Are Small Businesses Becoming More Productive?

The Wells Fargo/Gallup Small Business Index survey for the first quarter of 2004 provides some new insight into whether small businesses have enjoyed productivity gains, and what small businesses can do to increase their productivity.

An Early Gallup Road Map to the McCain-Obama Matchup

As the general election campaign unofficially gets underway, Gallup Poll data show significant divides between Barack Obama and John McCain by age, race, gender, education, religion, marital status, and party. Obama has a slim lead, 47% to 44%, ...

Post-Election Priorities of Small Business Owners

What kind of change to the current business climate would the nation's small business owners like to see as a result of the presidential election? Gallup asked small business owners to say whether they think some key election issues are hurting ...

Does It Pay to Be Your Own Boss?

Entrepreneurs, despite their drive and creativity, face wide-ranging challenges -- from raising adequate funding and financial resources for crucial capital investments, to finding the right management talent, to meeting health insurance costs. ...

Gallup 2012 Presidential Election Polling Review

Executive summary covering the results of Gallup's in-depth review of its 2012 pre-election presidential polling.