On the small business front, in the New York Times, in February of that same year, Catherine Rampell wrote an article titled “Small Businesses Still Struggle and That’s Impeding a Recovery.” In January of 2013, drawing upon research from Citigroup economists, Bloombergstated, “Payrolls at firms with fewer than 500 employees accounted for less than 50 percent of the total workforce for the first time in 2008 and have barely recovered since…”




