Small businesses like restaurants and cafés are now offering childcare to prevent employee turnover

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US childcare costs are crushing employees.

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A millennial who credited TikTok for his business's $700,000 sales in 2022 said he's afraid he'll lose it all if the US bans the app: 'Our representatives have no problem throwing all of our lives away'

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Joshua Lucas

A TikTok-famous hairstylist went viral for fixing bad dye jobs for free. It soon backfired.

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A hair styling TikTok stunt has become a cautionary tale for entrepreneurs (stock image).

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Small business sentiment dropped by most in 13 months in January as inflation, labor costs bite

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A child browses through the toys on display at Annie's Blue Ribbon General Store, Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2021, in the Brooklyn borough of New York.

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I got accepted to Amazon's DSP program and launched my own delivery business. I now make $3 million in revenue and own 38 vans.

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Sophia Strother says her team has been able to deliver over 4 million packages and completed over 20,000 routes.

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A former biology teacher who bought a small-town bookstore explains how she made the business profitable and competes with behemoths like Amazon

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Adah Fitzgerald bought Main Street Books in Davidson, North Carolina in 2015.

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'Shark Tank' investor Kevin O'Leary warns of 'real chaos' in the coming months as high interest rates batter the US economy

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