Sunday, June 28, 2026

Tag: small businesses

New Year minimum wage hikes hopeful to boost consumer spending, strengthen...

In 2025, 15 states plus Washington D.C. have scheduled minimum wage increases to $15 or higher.

A complete abomination’: Mega-rich hedge funds swoop down to grab COVID-19...

"Without oversight, this is what's happening with the $2 trillion coronavirus bailout: hedge fund managers are claiming relief funds as 'small businesses.'"

The GOP tax cuts are bad champagne for small business

But maybe, with our help, the next Congress will be up to the task of supporting small business, the real engine of growth in our economy.

How to keep businesses (and small towns) alive when owners retire

In Kansas, a new matchmaking service is helping transition small businesses to new hands. Could it be a model for the rest of rural America?

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Why Biden’s debate disaster two years ago matters for the future

Looking ahead, a great need will be to overcome the ongoing culture of conformity that so badly damaged the Democratic Party in 2024 and helped Trump get back into the White House.

Bipartisan bill introduced in House to ban use of pesticide paraquat in US agriculture

The bill would "direct the Environmental Protection Agency to cancel all existing paraquat registrations, revoke any tolerances permitting paraquat residue in food, and ban the sale and use of existing stocks upon enactment."

Addicted to war?

War Fever, Trump-Style.

Losing face, losing the base, losing the midterm race—a tidal trifecta 

Though daring MAGA lies seem tidal,/ Denying outcomes suicidal.

Alaska governor vetoes single-use polystyrene foam foodware ban

For now, polystyrene products will remain legal for use by commercial food vendors statewide.