Archive for the 'Government' Category

  • Title VI – Do you really want a government grant?

    People sell lots of information courses about “government grants”. If you get one however, you’ll be subject to Federal Title VI regulations and are expected to have procedures in place to accomodate this legislation. Basically it’s well intentioned… you are supposed to treat all people fairly. But what does that mean to the government? At [...]

  • Diabetic Shoes Funded By Medicare – Your Work At Home Chance?

    I spent quite a bit of time tracking this information down yesterday on this opportunity where you can have your office at home but you have to go out and meet people… and my source was a bit “closed mouth”. Still, I think there’s enough here to show you where to look for this opportunity [...]

  • Most With Option To Telecommute Prefer To Drive

    Though some people are just DYING to work from home, for many the option is as attractive as bringing home work from the office! Before you make the jump home, you need to decide… is it working at home I crave? Or just a change in my work conditions? For example, this study showed that [...]

  • Federal Trade Commission Slams Business Opportunity Marketers

    Gerald Nehra comments on dangerous proposed changes in rules regarding the marketing of business opportunities. The potentially far reaching effects could keep people from learning about valuable opportunities in the name of protecting people not willing to assume their fair share of risk for legitimate opportunities. FTC—WHAT WERE YOU THINKING? by Gerald P. Nehra Brief [...]

  • Top 5 Challenges For Government Grant Writers

    Some people’s “business” is in the so-called “Non profit” sector so called. Grants are a major source of income. Grant writing can be a lucrative work at home business and compensation is usually a percentage of the revenues won (how that’s so when every penny is supposed to be accounted for by a tangible service [...]

  • Get Your IRS Refund With Interest

    108 years ago to fund the Spanish American war, the US Government levied the Telegraph Tax. It’s been collected until recently though by all reports the war was over. This came out a while back but still hasn’t gotten much play. Beware those temporary taxes. They stay around forever. You can get a refund with [...]

  • Medicare Prescription Drug Plan Sickens Rural Pharmacies

    A while back I posted about opportunities for home based pharmaceutical reps. This particular option may or may not be available still but there may be a growing NEED for it in rural areas where health practitioners may be able to stay in business but there may be fewer options for getting the prescriptions. Why? [...]

  • Telecommuter Tax Fairness Act

    The Telework Coalition is trying to mobilize support for a federal Telecommuter Tax Fairness Act. The act stems from state laws in New York that tax non resident telecommuters at New York in state rates even when they don’t reside there. You can sign a petition supporting the Telecommuter Tax Fairness act here…

  • Federal Government Unveils New Currency

    The Federal Government today unveiled a new currency designed to convey the actual inflation adjusted value of the dollar. The new bills are expected to be in circulation fairly soon – in time to match the dollar’s quick demise once Canada, the US and Mexico are linked economically as a Northern Hemisphere Trade Zone. The [...]

  • Happy Magna Carta Day June 15th

    Happy Magna Carta day! Free Markets depend upon the government to punish wrongdoers (thieves) but also presume that the government is not the chief theif. This presumption reaches back in the history of the West but crystalizes at certain points such as today with the issuance of the Magna Carta… a limitation on the king’s power to rob, loot, and pillage. The [...]