The full May 2014 results showed the following:

    Do you plan on hiring in
     the next 3 to 6 months?                      Yes                 30%
                                                                      No                  70%

    Does your company hire
     employees who have just graduated
     from college?                                      Yes                 51%
                                                                     No                  49%

Barry Sloane, Chairman, President and CEO commented, "According to the Small Business Administration, about 70% of new job growth in the United States comes from small businesses.  Our May survey depicts a lack of intention in our small business clientele to hire over the next two quarters and that the trend of a jobless economic recovery may continue. Although we have seen the United States unemployment rate fall from about 10% to 6.3%, the historic measurement of employment trends in the U.S. has proven to be misleading. The labor department's U-6 measure, currently at 12.3%, which essentially identifies the amount of workers that are eligible to work but are not working, including people who have left the labor force, is a more useful measure. In order for the economy to recover there need to be more workers in the total population that are earning a wage and who can be clients of small businesses. Once this begins, we anticipate the small business economy picking up."