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
Month: August 2021
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
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
The email comes as a notification that you have been charged a specified amount for an item or service you never ordered. It is not a bill requesting payment, which you would immediately delete. Rather it is a notification of a payment that allegedly you have already made through a bank deposit or credit card.
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
Let me tell you about Ember, a small business owner. Her PPP loan through Bank BAC of America was approved for $76,773. A year later, BofA sent her an email that they were retroactively qualifying her for just $4,377! Is this really how Bank of America chooses to treat their best customers? I wrote in
In a sign of the political divide over death taxes, Iowa is repealing its inheritance tax, with a phased-in reduction of the tax bite retroactive to January 1, and full repeal as of January 1, 2025. Abolishing the state inheritance tax was a key priority for Republican Governor Kim Reynolds; it was part of a
Gleb Savchenko and Elena Samodanova have listed their five-bedroom, 3.5 bathroom Laurel Canyon Hills home they once shared for 3.19 million. Savchenko, 37, a pro on Dancing With the Stars, and the Sharknado actress split in November, after 14 years of marriage, and filed for divorce earlier this year. During an episode of the Whine Down
Born in 1880, Anderson Hunt Brown used his natural business genius to become one of the nation’s first Black property moguls—and he used his wealth to effect serious advances for civil rights. For Anderson Hunt (A.H.) Brown, frustration was a powerful factor that inspired much of his success. The frustration and pain of losing three
Santa Fe, New Mexico, is one of those places everyone seems to love. From the classic adobe-style architecture to art galleries to fine dining and numerous museums, including the Georgia O’Keefe Museum, Santa Fe and its clear blue skies is a fun city to visit. It’s because of its rich culture that many decide to
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
Fruit and vegetable allotments on the outskirts of Henley-on-Thames, England. David Goddard | Getty Images News | Getty Images From oranges and lemons grown in Spain to fish caught in the wilds of the Atlantic, many are spoiled for choice when it comes to picking the ingredients that go on our plate. Yet, as concerns
In this article 941-HK 728-HK 762-HK A mobile phone shows Huawei app interface. Huawei unveiled HarmonyOS, its own operating system in 2019. In June 2021, the company launched the operating system on a smartphone for the first time. Costfoto | Barcroft Media | Getty Images The chairman of Huawei said the Chinese technology company’s “aim
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
A currency dealer monitors exchange rates in a trading room at KEB Hana Bank in Seoul on June 21, 2021. JUNG YEON-JE | AFP via Getty Images Shares of Kakao Bank shot up more than 70% during its market debut in South Korea on Friday. Kakao Bank is South Korea’s first digital bank to go
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
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.
In this article SPCE Virgin Galactic’s passenger rocket plane VSS Unity, carrying Richard Branson and crew, begins its ascent to the edge of space above Spaceport America near Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, U.S. July 11, 2021 in a still image from video. Virgin Galactic | via Reuters Virgin Galactic delivered second-quarter results after the
Photo by Ariel Skelley via Getty Images Investors are piling into municipal bonds — also known as muni bonds or “munis” — ahead of President Joe Biden‘s proposed tax hikes. However, some retirees may be hit with a costly surprise: higher Social Security levies and Medicare premiums. During the first six months of 2021, U.S.
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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