Saturday, April 30, 2022
Thursday, April 28, 2022
7 things you're wasting money on - CNN
Money Matters | | Santa Fe Reporter
Over the last two weeks, the city's Finance Committee has been hashing out the details of the fiscal year 2023 budget .
Councilor Carol Romero-Wirth, the Finance Committee's chair, said the budget hearings resulted in a document that makes significant investments in affordable housing, economic recovery, meeting sustainability goals and more.
How to Make Money On Instagram in 2022 | NextAdvisor with TIME
"I grew my business to six figures in my first year, and I know it was because of how I leaned into Instagram as a sales tool," says Monica Monfre Scantlebury , a course creation and audience growth strategist.
With over one billion monthly active users – and over 62% of those users being under 35 years of age, according to research from Statista, a market data company – Instagram is a gold mine and will likely continue to be so for years to come.
How To Handle These 8 Money Scenarios When You Are Just Getting By | GOBankingRates
Discover: 6 Bad Habits That Hike Up Your Grocery Bill
Learn: 6 Household Staples That Are a Waste of Money
For instance, what do you do when you're out with wealthy (or wealthier-than-you) friends? What if you were well positioned financially pre-Covid but, since the pandemic, you've lost some ground, perhaps being cornered into full-time caregiving or thrust into long-term unemployment?
9 Ways To Make Your Money Grow in 6 Months | GOBankingRates
Think about where you'd like to be financially six months from now. Enough money for a down payment for a car? Credit card balance paid off? Maybe you want to finally have an emergency fund ?
Explore: 50 Ways You're Throwing Money Away
Find: 22 Side Gigs That Can Make You Richer Than a Full-Time Job
Saving Money on Medicare - Cross Timbers Gazette | Southern Denton County | Flower Mound | News
Like most seniors in retirement, you are probably more cost-conscious now that you've stopped receiving a regular paycheck. Maybe you've combed through your budget looking to cut expenses. I applaud you for doing so, but there is another area you should double check – Medicare!
Part B Premium : This is typically a fixed cost for seniors, but often times your Part B premium is increased due to high income when you were previously working (IRMAA). If you are making less now, you can file paperwork to have your Part B premium reduced (SSA-44).
The Money Issue, and the problems with open sourcing Twitter's algorithms | MIT Technology ...
Whether it's a biometric-based universal cryptocurrency meant to underpin Web3, cities built by Bitcoin, digital currencies that are replacing cash, or the way iBuying is transforming the housing market, technology is fundamentally changing the ways we buy, spend, and save money.
Just hours after Twitter announced it was accepting Elon Musk's buyout offer, the SpaceX CEO made his plans for the social network clear. In a press release, Musk outlined the sweeping changes he intended to make, including opening up its algorithms, which determine what users see in their feed.
Money changes everything | MIT Technology Review
From "Computer-Based Services in Personal Transactions": The challenge thrown down by the computer for the future is to transmit information without the paper.
From "The Bottom Line on Checkless Banking": Anyone who has ever deposited money in a soda machine, only to find that it does not deliver the product, knows that we humans have difficulty dealing with nonworking machines. Upon receiving his bank statement, a friend noted a mysterious $50 charge.
KSAT Money Q&A: How to be an effective solopreneur
SAN ANTONIO – Solopreneurs have become more prevalent throughout the COVID-19 pandemic on social media and in-person at local and national retailers.
Many have left their jobs to make it out on their own in business, but becoming an effective solopreneur isn't easy and takes a lot of dedication.
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Tuesday, April 26, 2022
Overtime pay for truckers: Potential market benefits, drawbacks | Overdrive
Part 1 in this two-part series by three supply chain researchers features a review of potential trucking market impacts to flow from legislative changes that could require motor carriers to pay overtime to over-the-road employee drivers. Part 2 follows with safety effects analysis.
Iowa City Burger Chain Accused Of Wage Theft On Missing Overtime Pay - Iowa Starting Line
Activists, union members, and a worker who says she is owed tens of thousands of dollars in unpaid overtime protested in front of an Iowa City burger restaurant Monday.
Rita, who requested Starting Line not use her last name, said she worked for the past 13 years at Short’s Burger and Shine in downtown Iowa City for owner Kevin Perez. In Spanish through an interpreter, Rita said she did every kind of job he asked of her from 8-or-8:30 a.m. until 5 p.m.
Good News for Ohio Employers as Overtime Laws Will Soon Align with Federal Statute | Fisher ...
When Ohio Governor DeWine signed Senate Bill 47 into effect on April 6, he handed employers a big win by not only exempting overtime pay for commuting and other off-hours work but also requiring workers to affirmatively “opt in” to join costly class and collective actions for overtime ...
Sudbury MA top earners: Database shows highest paid town employees
The Daily News requested the town's 2021 payroll data, showing annual compensation for some 1,007 town and school employees. The list covers a combined $50,889,267.57 in total pay.
In all, 200 town employees made more than $100,000 in total pay last year, though only two earned more than $200,000: heavy equipment operator Joseph Amato and special police officer Robert Grady.
The Recorder - Fairness for Farmworkers bill remains in limbo
BOSTON — Massachusetts continues to wait patiently for the bill to address the issues of low wages and the lack of an overtime pay system for farmworkers.
Under the current law, farmworkers can be paid a sub-minimum wage of $8 per hour. This contrasts with the state's minimum wage, which has grown from $11 per hour in 2019 to $13.50 in 2021 and is set to increase to $15 per hour next year.
MTA paid out more than $1 billion in overtime in 2021: data
NEW YORK (PIX 11)— The Metropolitan Transportation Authority shelled out more than $1 billion in overtime pay to its employees last year, according to payroll data released Friday.
More than 300 workers collected at least $100,000 in overtime, four of whom pocketed more than $200,000, records show. Approximately 700 earned more in overtime than their regular salary, according to the data posted on SeeThroughNewYork, the Empire Center's government transparency website.
Police officers, school workers dominate top 20 pay list in Sudbury
Sudbury's 2021 payroll included 1,007 employees who earned a combined $50,889,267.57, according to a Daily News analysis of compensation data.
All but five of the town's top 20 earners took home more than $150,000 in total pay, though only two — heavy equipment operator Joseph Amato and special police officer Robert Grady — earned more than $200,000.
PUB repays 6 months' overtime pay with interest owed to some staff due to 'technical ...
SINGAPORE — Due to a technical issue in a human resource (HR) system, a group of workers from national water agency PUB have been owed overtime pay for as long as six months, TODAY has learnt.
In response to queries, PUB said that it has since rectified the error and has paid workers the overtime pay owed in the six months and for February and March this year in April's payroll.
University employees to be paid biweekly - The Brown and White
Lehigh announced on March 1 the university payroll system will be moving from semimonthly to biweekly payments, occurring every other week, for all employees who are eligible for minimum wage and overtime pay.
Crouch, who oversees aspects of university finances, worked closely with many departments as well as the heads of every college during the last year to collect feedback from students and staff.
Are Four-Day Workweeks the Future in California? | Stokes Wagner - JDSupra
California law currently defines the “workweek,” by operation of its overtime rules, as 40 hours per week.
To potentially alleviate wage loss to employees affected by a reduced workweek, AB 2932 provides, “the compensation rate of pay at 32 hours shall reflect the previous compensation pay at 40 hours, and an employer shall not reduce an employee’s regular rate of pay as a result of this ...
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Thursday, April 21, 2022
How to Successfully Scale Your Business
Scaling a business is a little like straddling two worlds: you have one foot in the startup mode and the other in the maturing, scale-up phase. You're no longer a young startup fueled by an MVP solution, Series A funding and a lot of entrepreneurial spirit.
It has always been difficult to find skilled technology workers. It's become even harder as all kinds of formerly "tech-light" companies now depend on tech expertise to digitally transform to meet customer demands in this heavily disrupted world.
City of Birmingham to host celebrating Small Business Week 2022 « The Official Website for ...
Birmingham, AL – The City of Birmingham and the Department of Innovation and Economic Opportunity (IEO) is hosting Birmingham Small Business Week May 2-6, 2022. Attendees can participate in various workshops hosted by entrepreneurs, business experts, and ecosystem builders.
Sleek kiosks could be coming to Oakland business districts
A donation to The Oaklandside goes beyond the newsroom. We amplify community voices, share the power of real information, and investigate systems, not just symptoms.
The way Oakland allows companies to advertise on city sidewalks could soon change. Historically, Clear Channel Outdoor has had a deal to advertise on bus shelters and use part of the revenue to maintain the structures.
It's time for business to end its Faustian pact with autocrats | Fortune
Business News for April 20, 2022 - The New York Times
Tesla said on Wednesday that it made a $3.3 billion profit in the first three months of the year, up from $438 million a year earlier and the biggest quarterly profit since the company's creation. But Tesla also said it expected its factories to run below capacity for the rest of 2022.
Elon Musk's advice for entrepreneurs: "Get into the lithium business" | ZDNet
Stephanie Condon is a senior staff writer for Red Ventures based in Portland, Oregon, covering business technology for ZDNet.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk had a word of advice this week for would-be business titans looking for a hot market: lithium.
"I encourage entrepreneurs out there who are looking for opportunities to get into the lithium business," Musk said Wednesday during Tesla's Q1 earnings conference call. "Lithium margins right now are practically software margins."
Come back business travelers! Hotel recovery still a sluggish one – REJournals
The hotel industry is slowly recovering from the shots it’s taken during the COVID-19 pandemic. Unfortunately, the key word here is “slowly.”
And the reason for this agonizingly slow recovery? It’s not leisure travel, which has steadily recovered since the worst days of the pandemic. It’s business travel. Companies still aren’t sending their workers on nearly as many road trips requiring hotel stays.
Asahi Kasei enters biologics CDMO business in US deal
Asahi Kasei Medical, through the deal, adds a biopharmaceutical contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) to its bioprocess business. Bionova specializes in the development and manufacture of recombinant protein therapeutics.
"After an in-depth evaluation of Bionova and other biologics CDMOs, we are extremely impressed with Bionova's scientific strength, their best-in-class facility and their passionate team that is both highly technically capable and extremely attentive to customer needs.
Wednesday, April 20, 2022
Here's how to get the most money towards college
The 18-year-old, who is a senior at Dulles High School in Sugar Land, Texas, is going to the University of Texas at Austin this fall. Affordability was a big factor in her decision, as was the curriculum. Khoja, the daughter of immigrants from India, wants to become a doctor.
Queens Jeweler Charged With Money Laundering | National Jeweler
Stanislav Yakubov allegedly fenced goods for a crew that committed more than a dozen armed robberies.
The $6.5 million in proceeds from the sale of a Patek Philippe watch with a Tiffany Blue dial will be donated to conservation efforts.
YOUR MONEY: Prevent Your Money from Becoming Unclaimed Property
Louisiana State Treasurer John M. Schroder administers the state's Unclaimed Property Program that works to connect owners with their lost and forgotten assets.
"Louisiana has one of the most successful unclaimed property programs in the nation thanks to hard-working staff, advances in technology, and an easy-to-navigate website for citizens to search and claim their funds," says Louisiana State Treasurer John M. Schroder.
Bookkeeping Is An Essential Part Of Money Management In Business
The goal of a business is to have current, organized, and reliable recordkeeping of the company that the owner can rely on. Critical business decisions are made from the output of accounting records, so ensure you are hiring the best talent for your team.
How 'cash stuffing' is helping TikTok creators beat inflation, pay debt
As news of soaring gas prices splashed across headlines, Yasmine Camilla saw her energy bill double "almost overnight." Filling up the tank now costs 30% to 40% more, she says.
"I had always just filled up my car when I needed petrol ," said the 36-year-old, who is based in London, England.
More money doesn't mean more growth, and other startup myths – TechCrunch
Hello and welcome back to Equity , a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines.
This is our Wednesday show, where we niche down to a single topic, think about a question and unpack the rest. This week, fresh off of a reunion that included pasta and green rooms, Natasha and Alex asked: What are some startup assumptions that get it wrong?
Money in the Metaverse (with Citi’s Ronit Ghose)
Hubbard rates uses for money | News, Sports, Jobs - Tribune Chronicle
HUBBARD — Council’s finance committee has submitted four projects for officials to review and consider funding with the $777,148 in American Recovery Plan money the city has received.
Second Ward Councilwoman Robin Zambrini said Monday the finance committee has recommended the four projects based upon input from residents and a review of infrastructure projects proposed by council and city officials:
Why you should retire with more money than you need - MarketWatch
I'm frequently asked some variation of this question: Can I afford to retire? The question seems simple, but it's trickier than you might think.
The simple answer is: It depends on how much you need from your investments every year and how much your portfolio is worth.
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Tuesday, April 19, 2022
Executive Ball’s FY23 operating budget proposal contains largest increase for education in 20 ...
ELLICOTT CITY, MD – Howard County Executive Calvin Ball today released a $2 billion fiscal year 2023 (FY23) operating budget that contains historic funding for public education, with major investments in public safety, mental health services, environmental programs and economic development ...
Mayor Bhalla proposes $132 million Hoboken municipal budget - Hudson Reporter
Hoboken Mayor Ravi Bhalla has proposed an estimated $132 million municipal budget for fiscal year 2022, which will come with a 5.6 percent local tax increase, as the city looks to overcome increases created by rising inflation and union contract settlements, along with investing in infrastructure ...
Barnegat Council Adopts $30M Budget - Jersey Shore Online
BARNEGAT – The Township Committee adopted a $30 million budget for 2022, raising property taxes by 3.4 percent.
"We're doing the best we can to keep the tax rate down," said Tom Lombarski, Chief Financial Officer. "The average tax increase will be $23.29, which is very low."
Sega is reportedly working on big-budget reboots of Crazy Taxi and Jet Set Radio - The Verge
Sega has reportedly started work on big-budget reboots of two cult titles: Crazy Taxi and Jet Set Radio .
Fortnite, of course, has built its success on a number of attributes. It's cross-platform, free-to-play, and generates money for publisher Epic Games through the use of cosmetic micro-transactions.
HASB members hear budget options | Local | huntingdondailynews.com
TexAmericas Center Awarded Distinguished Budget Presentation Award by the Government Finance ...
TexAmericas Center (TAC) announced its budget for the 2022 fiscal year has been awarded the Distinguished Budget Presentation Award by the Government Finance Officers Association.
"TexAmericas Center strives for professionalism, integrity, and transparency in all we do," said TexAmericas Center Executive Director and CEO Scott Norton .
Anchorage Mayor Bronson to start using Assembly-approved budget, after months of ignoring it - ...
Anchorage officials say they will start using the budget approved by the Assembly, months after it was passed.
In December, the Assembly overrode vetoes from Mayor Dave Bronson to pass the budget. However, Bronson's administration hasn't been following that budget, and some programs aren't getting the funding they expected.
Q&A: Critiquing the state budget - Investigative Post
John Kaehny is executive director of the good-government group Reinvent Albany and a leading experts on state government. He and his team have been poring over the state budget, which as adopted April 6. He offered this take in an interview last week with Investigative Post Editor Jim Heaney.
Gov. Pritzker expected to sign 2023 Illinois budget Tuesday - CBS Chicago
CHICAGO (CBS)-- Governor JB Pritzker is expected to sign the 2023 state budget into law Tuesday.
The budget suspends the tax on groceries for one year, freezes the gasoline tax for six months, doubles the property tax rebate of up to $300 per household, and permanently expands the earned income tax credit.
Here are the top items in the $1.2B Maine budget heading for passage
The first votes on the budget are expected in the House of Representatives on Tuesday. Here is a guide to the top items in the budget that will affect the most Maine people.
The $850 relief checks for most Mainers have dominated discussion of the budget. The payments are set to go out to roughly 857,000 Maine adults at a total cost of $729 million. The first checks could be sent by the state in June.
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