Getty Congress just agreed to a bipartisan appropriations bill that will help avert another government shutdown. However, attached to the spending bill is a piece of legislation called the Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement Act (SECURE Act), which passed the House with a 417-3 vote earlier this summer. Honestly, the passage of the SECURE Act came as
Paying taxes as sustainability strategy Getty Sustainability gets higher on the policy agenda of many corporations. Not only in the light of climate change but also in terms of fair working conditions, health, gender equality and other Sustainable Development Goals. Some corporations take sustainability as seriously as they can throughout their organization and value chain.
In general, our properties lost less value, experienced fewer foreclosures, and gained pricing … [+] traction more rapidly than those in other parts of the country. Getty Whither the real estate market in 2020? In recent days I have read a number of rosy predictions from brokers living in a different reality from mine in
Jim R. Bounds | Bloomberg | Getty Images House Democrats are pushing to add several health-care provisions to a $1.4 trillion spending bill that must pass by Dec. 20 to avoid a government shutdown, according to congressional aides familiar with the legislation. U.S. lawmakers are in talks to raise the minimum tobacco age to 21
A bag of Tyson Foods Inc. frozen chicken is arranged for a photograph in Tiskilwa, Illinois, U.S., on Thursday, May 5, 2016. Tyson is scheduled to release earnings figured on May 9. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Shares of Tyson Foods rose more than 2% on Monday after Reuters reported the meat processor received
Unexpected medical bills are doing more than driving up debt. For many Americans, those debts are also making it more difficult to get a mortgage. Buyers with medical debt are more likely than others to be denied a mortgage, according to a report on consumer housing trends by online real estate marketplace Zillow. Zillow’s survey
Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin It looks like SECURE is in the spending bill. Getty On December 12, 2019, senior lawmakers announced they had reached a tentative agreement on the $1.4 trillion government spending bill. In a handshake deal, Rep Nita Lowry of New York announced that they had a “meeting
Reps. Stephanie Murphy (D-FL), Ben McAdams (D-UT), and Ed Case (D-HI) discuss the House Blue Dog … [+] Coalition’s Blueprint for Fiscal Reform at a forum sponsored by the Progressive Policy Institute’s Center for Funding America’s Future. House Blue Dog Coalition The federal government is ending 2019 with a national debt of over $17 trillion
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Bob Iger, CEO, The Walt Disney Company Scott Mlyn | CNBC It’s been a tough decade for big media companies as more people stream content over the internet instead of paying for cable subscriptions. But this year in the movie business, the Force has been with Walt Disney. The company released six of the eight