After payroll, health insurance is the biggest expense for small businesses, and increases in health-care costs tend to hit smaller companies especially hard. For companies with 10 to 199 workers, the ...

They are restaurateurs and beauticians, landscapers and mediators, chiropractors and funeral directors. They are freelancers, contractors and gig workers. And they now find themselves stuck in the ...

Pete Bitar has big plans to build a line of electric flying passenger cars through his Anderson-based startup, LEO Flight Corp. But to attract the best workers, he wants to offer a competitive health ...

Les Masterson is a deputy editor and insurance analyst at Forbes Advisor. He has been a journalist, reporter, editor and content creator for more than 25 years. He has covered insurance for a decade, ...

Bob covers the money in health care, focusing on health insurance and hospitals. His stories delve into Medicare Advantage, opaque prescription drug benefits, and how much executives actually make. He ...

The Wayne County and Lafayette chambers of commerce are part of a growing statewide network helping small employers learn ...

Supporting our child care providers is essential to strengthening families, communities and our state’s economy. Access to affordable, high-quality child care is one of the strongest economic drivers ...

LANSING, Mich. (NEWS 10) - Small business owners in Michigan are struggling to balance their books as inflation drives up costs across the board. According to a new survey from the Small Business ...

Many consumers and small businesses across the state will see double-digit percentage increases for health insurance in 2026, highlighting the rising cost of medical care, inpatient hospital stays and ...

Health insurance costs are rising even faster than the current 2.7 percent annual inflation rate, and experts expect double-digit surges in 2026. A major consequence of spiking prices is that a ...

Californians are facing nearly $1 billion in new health care costs, an amount that will be passed onto employers and employees through higher premiums, deductibles and out-of-pocket costs. As a small ...

Small businesses are shouldering disproportionately higher healthcare costs as prices continue to climb, but they're refusing to cut their workforce's access to benefits. Processing Content The median ...