Small Business Hiring Increases In December, Weaker Than First Half Of 2015 Though

In the month of December 2015, small business hiring improved, according to the Star Tribune. In December payroll provider ADP counted 95,000 new jobs at small businesses compared to 72,000 in November and 81,000 in October.

The source revealed that an average of 75,000 jobs per month were created by small businesses during the second half of 2015, and while that sounds like good news, that number is down from an average 107,000 jobs per month in the first half of the year.