A procedural vote this week, possibly even today, in the US Senate will determine if President Obama’s American Jobs Act even gets to be debated on the Senate floor. The bill doesn’t have a chance of passing the Senate because it, as most legislation now, can’t get the 60 votes needed to overcome a GOP […]
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This past Friday President Obama challenged business and industry to hire and train 100,000 unemployed veterans or their spouses before 2014. The President pointed out that there are one million unemployed veterans today with a 13.3% jobless rate for post 9/11 veterans. To move the challenge along, the President has proposed the following tax credits:
The pretender small business organization is at it again representing the interests of its real patrons—big business and the wealthiest Americans. The National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) has hired former Democratic Arkansas Senator Blanche Lincoln to be the front stooge of its latest publicity stunt, Small Businesses for Sensible Regulations. Lincoln’s job is to
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Below are exerpts of an opinion editorial by Jeff Stibel that appeared in the June 7 edition of Reuters blog. Jeff Stibel is the chairman and CEO of small business credit rating agency Dun & Bradstreet Credibility Corp. Small business at a crossroads by Jeff Stibel Right now, leading indicators – like lending, hiring and
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from Portfolio.comMay 17, 2011Self-Employed Favor Taxing the Rich by Kent Hoover Most self-employed Americans aren’t rich—maybe that’s why they don’t have a problem with raising taxes on people who are. A survey of National Association for the Self-Employed members found that 55 percent favored increasing income tax rates for households making more than $250,000 as
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Two U.S. House Committees held a joint hearing yesterday on a potential executive order from the Obama Administration that will try to make sure government contracts are not being awarded because of campaign contributions. This is a seriously important issue for every small business that would like to provide goods or services to the Federal
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Transparency in government. That was probably the issue that helped Nikki Haley the most in winning the South Carolina Governor’s election last November. Who could be against transparency? Who doesn’t want to make sure that government decisions are being made for the good of the taxpayers and not for the good of a deep-pocketed special
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I met Zach Carter, a young journalist with the Huffington Post, back in April. We had lunch at a trendy deli in DC with David Levine (American Sustainable Business Council), Scott Klinger (Wealth for the Common Good) and Chuck Collins (Institute for Policy Studies). While we couldn’t get Zach interested in writing about tax haven
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Soon we will find out how many small businesses in the country received health insurance tax credits for 2010—a benefit under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The Small Business Majority estimated that there are approximately 4 million businesses with 2 to 24 employees that could qualify for the tax credits if they offered health insurance
The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission released its 576 page report yesterday on the causes of the great recession. They interviewed over 700 people with first-hand knowledge of how the crisis came to be. “Avoidable” concluded the Commission. Our regulators failed us. The lack of appropriate regulatory oversight failed us. Excessive Wall Street risk-taking failed us.
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