April 23, 2010 by Jennifer Azara
Tax Day brought more than long post office lines — it also brought two more months of unemployment benefits to many people. And a new to-do list for Finance.
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Tags: Benefits, COBRA, COBRA subsidy, Congress, Involuntarily terminated, Layoffs, Retroactively, The Continuing Extension Act of 2010, Unemployment benefits
February 23, 2010 by Jared Bilski
February 5, 2010 by Jared Bilski
It’s no shock many Americans are unhappy with their current financial situations. But what about the fact that more than a quarter of people blame their employer for their personal money problems?
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Tags: Baby Boomers, Congress, Echo Boomers, Financial situation, Gen. X, Harris Interactive poll, Large corporations, Matures, Personal money problems, Wall Street
July 16, 2009 by Jared Bilski
Combine tight credit, a lagging economy and tough new bankruptcy laws, and you have an environment where it’s nearly impossible for struggling small businesses to ride out the storm.
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Tags: Bankruptcy laws, Chapter 11, Congress, Credit, Small businesses
April 24, 2009 by Jennifer Azara
You’ve seen the skyrocketing stats on identity theft and heard about some dramatic payment data breaches (Heartland, anyone?). It’s enough to make you swear off credit cards … unless this new protection catches on.
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Tags: Congress, Credit card companies, Identity theft, Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards, Payment data breaches, Tokenization
November 26, 2008 by Michael Donnelly
President-elect Obama all but promised higher taxes on the rich and letting various Bush tax cuts expire while in campaign mode, but with the recession hitting full stride, he’s backtracked on the timing of any tax hike.
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Tags: Bush tax cuts, Congress, President-elect Obama, Taxes, Unemployment
November 4, 2008 by Jared Bilski
Healthcare alert! A bill with the potential to drastically change the way small businesses pay for health care coverage will probably go to Congress sometime before year’s end.
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Tags: ACS, Bare-bones coverage, Congress, Group rates, Michael Enzi, Small-business health care bill, State Association of Attorney General
October 3, 2008 by Michael Donnelly
