Archive for the 'Government' Category

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Littleton Colorado leads the way in the future of economic development. They practice “Economic Gardening” a model of economic development that seeks to cultivate new business through entrepreneurship. Every county in the nation for all practical purposes has economic development people at work. What model is being used where you do business? Most are trying [...]

The U.S. House of Representatives is considering tax relief for stay at home parents. If this would affect you, you may want to contact your representative. After years of watching this tinkering with the tax code, it all begins to sound like polishing the brass railings as the Titanic is going down. Sweeping Suggestions For [...]

MSN is reporting how FEMA is preparing to auction off 20,000 mobile homes. Mobile home dealers feel the federal government might flood the market. Buying and selling used mobile homes (by “toting the note”) is a brand of real estate all by itself. If that sector of real estate is “your baby”… you may get [...]