Big business gets a lot of attention when it comes to counting jobs, but it turns out that small firms also have a large effect on Wisconsin’s economy. And, they may have helped prevent the recession from being worse than it was. Teresa Shipley looks at the big potential of small business, in this last segment of our post-recession series, “Two Years Later”.
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