Month: January 2021

This episode of What’s Ahead points out that President Biden’s proposal for a national $15 minimum wage would kill millions of jobs, especially in beleaguered small businesses. Past experience shows that part-time workers and those without high school diplomas would be hurt the most. There is an infinitely better approach that wouldn’t destroy jobs and
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Quiet spaces for fitness and meditation are a strong wellness design trend. Photo Courtesy of Designer: Ana Cummings; Photographer: S. Dutchesen // Wellness by Design (Tiller Press) (c) J. Gold Wellness design was a strong and growing trend before Covid-19 reached our shores early last year, but it has exploded in popularity as the virus
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More than 150 world leaders, including Amazon boss Jeff Bezos, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff and Ford Motor Company executive chairman Bill Ford, signed an open letter to President Joe Biden to pledge their support to the new administration’s goals to combat climate change.  In particular, the open letter, released Sunday, underscored the potential job growth
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Audrey Saracco / EyeEm If your $600 stimulus payment still hasn’t landed in your bank account, you may be wondering if you can still expect it. According to the most recent guidance from the IRS, the answer is “maybe.” Millions of second stimulus checks have been deployed in recent weeks after Congress approved the payments
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As the Covid vaccine rollout gains steam nationwide, restaurants are weighing options to encourage workers to get the vaccine. Foodservice workers are recommended in phase 1(c) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s lists of who should be vaccinated when supply is limited, falling just behind high-risk health-care workers, the elderly and frontline essential
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getty It’s finally here! The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has rolled out a new online option that will help tax professionals submit certain authorization forms electronically. To date, the new option applies to two forms: Form 2848, Power of Attorney and Declaration of Representative, and Form 8821, Tax Information Authorization. These forms allow taxpayers to
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Before Mark Cuban became a billionaire in 1999, he was mostly broke in his early 20s — sleeping on the floor of an apartment he shared with six others, frequently coming home to his lights turned off and having his credit cards cut. But Cuban remained motivated by the thought of retirement and financial independence. In fact, “my whole goal when I
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The power of the internet is bringing individual investors together to crush Wall Street hedge funds and other investment bigwigs. It’s a new trend that’s only just getting started, CNBC’s Jim Cramer said on Monday. “It’s the ‘wallstreetbets’ people.’ And they have ganged up, arguably allowed by free speech purposes, to center on a few
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