Archive for the 'Government' Category

This is something I’ve been watching unfold as AT&T swallowed up Cingular and Bell South so it could become the huge company it was before it got broken up. Ok, maybe not quite as huge, but pretty big.
It has been amazing to see AT&T which seemed to be dying a slow death burst back to [...]

I don’t doubt that American workers feel powerless and frightened in the face of globalization and many doubt that their children will be better off. One thing’s for sure, if our children try to make a living working in a factory without even a high school education… yes, that isn’t going to work.
What I seriously [...]

It’s tax time again. So you may be wondering about the tax benefits (if any) of incorporating or creating an LLC. Guess what? I don’ t know.  
I’m no tax or legal expert and I don’t know your personal situation, so you must consult your own tax and legal advisors to obtain specialized advice. But like [...]

Telecommute Connecticut! offers free resources and assistnance to businesses to help them set up alternative workplaces. It’s designed to ease traffic congestion and it’s sponsored by the state’s Department of Transportation.
Unlike the Telework Virginia initiative, there doesn’t seem to be any money on the table to pay for the transitions, but the program does provide [...]

The Entrepreneurial Mind blog lead me to an interesting article at Inc.com on how the global economy is affecting American businesses that want to remain competitive. The author is Jack Stack the CEO of an employee owned company who co-wrote A Stake in the Outcome: Building a Culture of Ownership for the Long-Term Success of [...]

The Austin Business Journal reports that the Small Business Administration will be implementing a plan to channel government contracts to women owned businesses. It’s only 6 years late. Good thing that women in the work at home field don’t have to rely on the government to allow them to get started. If you’d been waiting [...]

You can run across interesting resources wherever you go.
Today, I was driving by a place I’d passed a million times. But today there was a huge sign “Online Auction” and then a website address.
It turns out this municipality is auctioning off their seized vehicles online at a site called GovDeals.com, and it’s specifically designed for [...]

TIME is reporting on more child care studies.
What the article isn’t reporting is interesting to say the least: The long term social costs of non-parental child care: “the Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development found that putting a child in day care for a year or more increases the chances that the child [...]

The Boston Business Journal is reporting that Federal Government contracts worth millions of dollars were given to huge corporations like GE with 319,000 employees that the Federal Government said went to “small businesses”.
Huge corporations are bidding on government contracts through wholly owned subsidiaries and the feds are acting like “mom and pop” won the bid.
“It’s [...]

I ran across mention of this on a UK blog (thanks David!) and relates to the UK situation directly, but it’s a warning to us all about how government policies in the name of “compassion” actually do the opposite of what’s intended.
The online book is by Patricia Morgan and is titled The War Between the [...]