Month: August 2021

Construction workers pouring wet concrete on a road. With 20% of the planned infrastructure bill, or $110 billion, dedicated for the construction of roads and bridges, small constructions firms are hoping for a long-term boom in business. Jung Getty As small businesses recover from labor constraints and business losses due to Covid-19, a bipartisan infrastructure
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By Chris Farrell, Next Avenue ADVERTISEMENT Britney Spears’ newsy and disheartening conservatorship nightmare has brought to public consciousness the immense power that court-ordered guardians wield over their charges and raised alarms about the potential for abuse. And now — finally — thanks to the sad story of the 39-year-old pop star, efforts are underway to tackle the longstanding
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By Kerry Hannon, Next Avenue Here’s the latest discouraging news for older job applicants: Hiring managers around the world have serious concerns about the abilities of people 45+ to learn new technologies and skills and to work with other generations, even though when they hire them, 87% of those employees perform as well, or better, than colleagues
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Join us on Saturday August 7th at 10:00am EST for a 30 minute webinar discussing the below and other aspects of Notice 2021-49 as well as recently issued Paycheck Protection Program guidance. The webinar can be registered for by emailing info@gassmanpa.com with ERC in the subject line. In a tremendously unpleasant surprise for owners of
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In this article SAVE People wait in line at a Spirit Airlines counter, at the George Bush Intercontinental Airport, on Aug. 5, 2021 in Houston, Texas. Brandon Bell | Getty Images The causes of Spirit Airlines‘ massive flight cancellations that derailed the summer vacations of tens of thousands of customers this week have been brewing
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In this article DRLCO-DK A crane loads a shipping container branded A.P. Moller-Maersk onto a freight ship. Balint Porneczi | Bloomberg | Getty Images Maersk, the world’s largest container shipping firm, has posted a sharp increase in second-quarter earnings as congestions and bottlenecks continue to drive up shipping rates. The company on Friday reported earnings
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U.S. stock index futures were little changed during overnight trading on Thursday, ahead of Friday’s highly anticipated jobs report. Futures contracts tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average dipped 24 points. S&P 500 futures and Nasdaq 100 futures were flat. Stocks finished Thursday’s session in the green, with the S&P 500 rising 0.6% to close
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In this article MAXR Close up imagery of the dredging operations underway around the Ever Given in the Suez Canal, captured by the company’s WorldView-3 satellite on Saturday, March 27, 2021. Maxar Technologies Space company Maxar Technologies shares dropped in trading Thursday after it announced another delay to the launch of its next-generation imagery satellites.
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It might be time, again, to protect your credit. An estimated 1 million U.S. and global credit cards were released by a Russian criminal organization on the so-called dark web, according to analysts at cybersecurity firm Q6. The group, which calls itself “All World Cards,” offers stolen credit card information to other criminals. Although there’s
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