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As 3D printers become better and more affordable , more and more entrepreneurs become interested in how they can contribute to their small businesses or provide avenues for brand new businesses altogether. Being able to manufacture products without the same staff, machinery, and space requirements opens all new avenues of productivity and profit.
They've got this Charlie Brown-like optimism - or naivete - that one day they'll actually kick that football a or win an election. Last week, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee announced it would put resources into Joe Cunningham's race to win the 1st District congressional seat.
The Trump administration said Saturday that it is temporarily halting billions of dollars of payments designed to help insurers meet the Affordable Care Act requirement that they provide coverage regardless of whether a person is healthy or sick. The administration said it was withholding $10.4 billion in the so-called "risk adjustment" payments, citing a district court ruling from earlier this year in New Mexico.
A U.S. senator from Idaho held an oversight hearing in Anchorage to receive feedback from Alaska business leaders on Small Business Administration programs. The Alaska Journal of Commerce reports Republican Sen. Jim Risch, chairman of the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, aimed for the hearing last week to gather insight into how and if the programs are helping businesses navigate the federal contracting system.
Yesterday, in South Dakota vs. WayFair, Inc., et al., the United States Supreme Court overturned long-standing precedents that required an out-of-state Seller to have a physical presence in a state to collect sales tax from consumers in that state. The South Dakota law being challenged by giant online retailers, Wayfair, Inc., Overstock.com, Inc., and Newegg, Inc. none of which had a physical presence in South Dakota requires out-of-state retailers to collect and remit sales tax "as if they had a physical presence in the state."
And wire reports New Hampshire online retailers could be on the hook to collect sales tax from dozens of states and thousands of locales after the U.S. Supreme Court Thursday upheld South Dakota's online sales tax law.
Lamar Alexander, a Republican, represents Tennessee in the U.S. Senate and serves as chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. Today, if you're a self-employed plumber or a farmer or a waitress at a small restaurant, you likely don't have access to the same kind of lower-cost health insurance, tax breaks and patient protections that employees of bigger companies, such as IBM or Microsoft, enjoy.
A sign that lending institutions may be loosening up their purse strings a bit, two Eastern Panhandle small businesses secured commercial loans this quarter to open or expand, officials said. Two businesses located in the downtown Martinsburg area had commercial loans approved by the U.S Department of Agriculture, said Matt Coffey, business coach with the Small Business Development Center of the Eastern Panhandle, who gave a quarterly small business update to the Berkeley County Development Authority Wednesday.
While Republicans largely will vote for one candidate Tuesday, Democrats have five choices when they head to the ballot box. Voters across the state will head to the polls in two days to cast ballots in the 2018 primary election.
The House Appropriations Committee's Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee on Thursday passed the fiscal year 2019 Financial Services and General Government Appropriations bill, which was authored by Rep. Tom Graves who is chairman of the subcommittee.
Republican Rep. Knute Buehler speaks at the Oregon House chamber during a special legislative session in Salem, Ore., Monday, May 21, 2018. Democratic Gov. Kate Brown convened the meeting to push a tax break aimed at small businesses.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel today announced a package of new reforms to support small businesses across the city. The plan will reduce costs for businesses, simplify the licensing process, increase transparency, support start-up and innovative businesses, and reduce the burden of inspections for all businesses.
Henry, a small-business owner and radio host, said he felt the urge to get involved with politics after the election of President Donald Trump, whom Henry feared would roll back protections for the LGBTQ community. His wife, a substitute school teacher, woke him at 2 a.m. after election night in tears.
U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal and U.S. Senator Chris Murphy today announced introduction of the Crumbling Foundations Small Business and Homeowners Assistance Act to provide $100 million in direct federal relief to property owners in Connecticut with crumbling foundations. The bill, introduced by Blumenthal and co-sponsored by Murphy would establish a grant program through the Federal Emergency Management Agency to award funding up to $20 million annually over a five year period.
Wayfair . The online seller, along with Overstock.com and Newegg, challenged a new South Dakota law that requires remote taxpayers to collect the state's sales tax if they sell more than $100,000 of goods per year into the state or, regardless of dollar amount, have more than 200 transactions with state residents.
A college student confronted House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi at an on-campus event sponsored by Georgetown University's Institute of Politics on Tuesday, challenging her rhetoric referring to the GOP-passed tax cuts and related bonuses as " crumbs ." Other Democrats have followed suit , sneering at the tangible benefits being experienced by everyday American families -- all thanks to a law that people like Pelosi wrongly predicted would inflict "Armageddon" on the US economy and trigger "the end of the world."
President Donald Trump and Rep. Kevin Brady, R-Texas, the House's top tax writer, recently announced that Republicans are working on a second round of tax cuts. In the president's words: "It's going to be something very special.
Last December, we accomplished something historic for you and your family. The most sweeping reform of the tax code in more than three decades was signed into law.
President Donald Trump speaks at an event to promote his $1.5 trillion tax cut package at Bucky Dent Park in Hialeah, Fla., Monday, April 16, 2018, as Irina Vilarino, owner of Las Vegas Cuban Cuisine listens. President Donald Trump speaks at an event to promote his $1.5 trillion tax cut package at Bucky Dent Park in Hialeah, Fla., Monday, April 16, 2018, as Irina Vilarino, owner of Las Vegas Cuban Cuisine listens.
In this April 13, 2018, photo, packages from Internet retailers are delivered with the U.S. Mail in a apartment building mail room in Washington. Clicking "checkout" on an online purchase could cost more after a Supreme Court case being argued April 17. In this April 13, 2018, photo, packages from Internet retailers are delivered with the U.S. Mail in a apartment building mail room in Washington.