{"id":2460,"date":"2011-07-26T23:00:25","date_gmt":"2011-07-27T07:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/2460\/senate-inquiry-finds-big-companies-taking-small-business-contracts-raleigh-news-observer\/"},"modified":"2011-07-26T23:00:25","modified_gmt":"2011-07-27T07:00:25","slug":"senate-inquiry-finds-big-companies-taking-small-business-contracts-raleigh-news-observer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/2460\/senate-inquiry-finds-big-companies-taking-small-business-contracts-raleigh-news-observer\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate inquiry finds big companies taking small business contracts &#8211; Raleigh News &#038; Observer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href='http:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/2011\/07\/26\/1371412\/senate-inquiry-finds-big-companies.html'>Senate inquiry finds big companies taking small business contracts &#8211; Raleigh News &#038; Observer<\/a><br \/>WASHINGTON &#8212; Federal contracts intended for small business are being awarded to large corporations, according to a Senate inquiry. They are being counted toward the congressionally mandated goal of ensuring that 23 percent of all federal contracts go to  <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href='http:\/\/moneywatch.bnet.com\/spending\/news\/sba-others-announce-michigan-small-business-loans\/6265642\/'>SBA, others announce Michigan small business loans &#8211; CBS MoneyWatch.com (blog)<\/a><br \/>LANSING, Mich.     Michigan small businesses will be the first ones in the country eligible to tap a new public-private loan program aimed at encouraging investment in clean energy or economically distressed areas, officials said Tuesday. U.S. Small  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate inquiry finds big companies taking small business contracts &#8211; Raleigh News &#038; ObserverWASHINGTON &#8212; Federal contracts intended for small business are being awarded to large corporations, according to a Senate inquiry. They are being counted toward the congressionally mandated goal of ensuring that 23 percent of all federal contracts go to SBA, others announce &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/2460\/senate-inquiry-finds-big-companies-taking-small-business-contracts-raleigh-news-observer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Senate inquiry finds big companies taking small business contracts &#8211; Raleigh News &#038; Observer<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}