This may worth something:
Social Security and You: Mom and pop businesses and Social Security | Investment | tucson.com
More than a few husbands and wives are involved in some kind of mom and pop business. And over the years, I've learned that many of those moms get the short end of the stick when it comes to Social Security. Or more specifically, to the assignment of earnings from the business to Social Security records.
My husband and I run a small business. Our profits are modest but usually enough to reach the Social Security taxable maximum. We are both 65 and plan to file for Social Security next year when we reach full retirement age. We recently checked our Social Security accounts, and I was shocked to learn that the only earnings on my record are from when I was younger, before we started our business.
We need new business models to burst old media filter bubbles – TechCrunch
Access to information in the United States is fragmenting along social lines. This goes beyond the fuzzy, qualitative feeling many of us have that people can't agree on key issues anymore — data show that people are increasingly breaking into disconnected ideological camps. While this is commonly viewed as a left/right issue, the reality is much more pernicious: It is a rich/poor issue.
Americans today are exposed to fundamentally different facts based on their news sources. Data are often arranged to fit narratives rather than the other way around. This effect spans the political spectrum: It is as relevant to The New York Times as it is to Fox News . One of the contributors to this information split is the rise of site-wide paywalls, which divide access to information along socio-economic lines.
'Digital Foundry' could spark business growth in former aluminum town of New Kensington |
Not to change the topic here:
Asian-owned businesses seeing dip in business due to pandemic and other factors
IOWA CITY, Iowa (KCRG) - The novel coronavirus pandemic has hit minority-owned businesses disproportionately hard.
A report from August by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce found two in three minority small businesses were concerned about having to permanently close their business. That's compared to 57% for non-minority businesses.
Some local Asian-owned businesses are feeling the impacts. The number of customers coming through the doors of Asia Plus and Teamo Tea, in Iowa City, has dropped significantly.
COVID-19 haunts seasonal business in McAllen - The Monitor
McALLEN — JJ's Party House felt eerie Wednesday, and not eerie in the way owner Lala Karam likes it to feel three days before Halloween.
The party supply and costume emporium felt unseasonably quiet Wednesday, almost like Halloween had already passed or was still a month or two off.
During a normal year, Karam said, the store would be bustling with families, the same way it's been every Halloween for the last 28 years.
"You couldn't move in here," she said. "We'd have to use all that parking lot and all the sides, it was so much fun."
Lockdowns, business rollbacks threatened amid surging virus | KSTP.com
The alarming surge in coronavirus cases in Europe and the U.S. is wiping out months of progress against the scourge on two continents, prompting new business restrictions, raising the threat of another round of large-scale lockdowns and sending a shudder through financial markets.
“We are deep in the second wave,” European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said Wednesday. “I think that this year’s Christmas will be a different Christmas.”
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