The national third quarter Small and Mid-Sized Business Job Generation Outlook survey assessed responses from 400 executives representing a variety of industries, 73 percent of which were from small or mid-sized businesses. Responses indicated that the cost of providing healthcare coverage to employees is executives’ chief concern. Small businesses, defined as having fewer than 100 employees, and mid-sized businesses, with between 100 and 199 employees, ranked the cost of healthcare as a bigger challenge than talent availability, uncertainty in tax policy, domestic and international competition and environmental regulations, according to the survey.
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