Issues

Small Business

Position

Administration reauthorization bill that would support strong and stable SBA 7(a) and 504 lending programs. Oppose legislation and regulations that would close the IRS tax gap by placing excessive paperwork and withholding burdens on compliant small business taxpayers.

News

  • BRIEF
    Sep 6, 2010 — The Hartford Courant
    Labor Day weekend, was intended to emphasize the rights of workers to be paid for jobs performed, including overtime pay and workers' compensation, Gov. M. Jodi Rell said. "Each and every employee should receive the wages they rightfully earn," Rell said. The $7 million includes $3.2 million in unpaid wages; $1.9 million recovered by enforcing prevailing wage laws; $1.8 million in overtime pay or the minimum wage; and $150,000 in back pay owed to service workers hired by private...
  • Fund aims to help ex-K9s
    Sep 6, 2010 — The Blade
    The sole responsibility falls onto the adoptive family," Trooper Arnold said. To help other retired law-enforcement dogs and their adoptive owners, Trooper Arnold and Ms. He said he needed to learn about K9 handlers and their dogs to use their work in court against criminals. Mr.
  • If you're seriously ill, know your rights as an employee
    Sep 6, 2010 — Sun Sentinel
    Marcia Heroux Pounds Sep. 6, 2010 (McClatchy-Tribune Regional News delivered by Newstex) -- Kara Jorud was ill with breast cancer. It has to be illness, injury, impairment, or physical or mental condition that involves care at a hospital or other medical office. Awards under ADA are limited to $300,000.
  • Mother Of 11 Gets Place To Live
    Sep 6, 2010 — The Hartford Courant
    Desperate to find a place, Bothur called St. Bothur had home-schooled her children for years. The duplex St. Bothur and her family got to pick out wall colors.
  • Report paints bleak labor numbers for Wisconsin
    Sep 6, 2010 — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
    Adjusted for inflation, the wage was less than $1 per hour higher than it was in 1979. Women in 2009 earned 19% less than men. There are too many people continuing to struggle in this economy. I'm the only candidate who has a real record working with the private sector to create jobs." The report's authors recommend several steps to improve the job situation.
  • Tight job market is bane of visiting foreign students
    Sep 6, 2010 — The Virginian-Pilot
    Mussina worked briefly at an ice cream parlor until the hours dried up, sold cosmetics on commission at a mall kiosk and waited tables, but the hours weren't enough. They never came. "There were over 4,000 foreign students here in Virginia Beach last year. Now they plan to travel before returning home. The program helped Bekaeva improve her English and provided the cash for some clothes, a laptop and travel money.
  • A workforce in exile on yet another Labor Day
    Sep 5, 2010 — St. Louis Post-Dispatch
    Louis, Jeanne Redtman found comfort in shops that sell greeting cards. So much so, that as a middle school student she had already identified her dream job. Redtman wanted to work for Hallmark. Straight out of graduation from St. But the economy being what it is, Elliott became expendable. The Elliotts say their sons help out as best they can.
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