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As the Fed Works to Slow Economy, Small Businesses Feel the Squeeze

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    -2% Center

  • Reliability

    35% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    -2% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    2% Positive

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : Roughly one in five small businesses view rising interest rates as the top challenge, and half of all small firms are delaying plans to expand because of those rates, says Tom Sullivan, vice president of small business policy with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, citing survey data jointly collected by the chamber and MetLife.Access to financing is crucial for small businesses because it enables them to grow and hire additional workers, fueling a cycle that keeps the labor market expanding and the economy humming.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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