Tag: Small Business

Tag: Small Business

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    Natural Hair Braiding Protection Act

    Section 1. {Purpose}        Natural hair braiding is a traditional practice that is safe.  It presents no significant health and safety risks to customers or practitioners.  This state should protect liberty.  It…

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    A Drink to Our Freedom

    During the mandate to prohibit alcoholic beverages in the United States under the 18th Amendment in 1920, it is unlikely that anyone could publicly say, “Connecting buyers and sellers, whiskey…

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    An Increased Burden: Too Expensive and Less Work

    These regulations will also make doing business in any industry much more expensive. A study by the American Action Forum concluded that the new overtime rule would cost employers about $3 billion in compliance costs and nearly 2.5 million hours of paperwork related to the regulations.

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    Comprehensive Public Employee Freedom Act

    Section 1. {Short Title.} This Act shall be known as the Comprehensive Public Employee Freedom Act Section 2. {Legislative Declarations.} This legislature finds and declares that: By bargaining over the allocation of…

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    Promoting Economic Growth, One State Labor Law at a Time

    In May, the U.S. economy added only 38,000 new jobs, the lowest amount added in the past five years. The release of this disappointing jobs report at the beginning…

  • D.C. Residents Face Tougher Path to Employment as $15 Minimum Wage Proposal Passes image

    D.C. Residents Face Tougher Path to Employment as $15 Minimum Wage Proposal Passes

    The recent push to raise minimum wage across the country has reached its boiling point in the District of Columbia. The proposal to raise the minimum wage to $15 per…

  • An Open Letter to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch Regarding Automatic Withholding of Union Dues image

    An Open Letter to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch Regarding Automatic Withholding of Union Dues

    The recent editorial by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch misleads the public on the importance of transparency in the payment of union dues. The bill in question, Missouri’s House Bill…

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    Right-to-Work in 2016

    Even before the third month of the year is finished, there have already been major victories for advocates of increased worker freedom. For the first time, a majority of U.S.

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    Rationalize Maryland’s Regulatory Environment

    For years, Maryland’s over-regulation has been hurting the state’s economy, stifling entrepreneurship and generally creating bureaucratic nightmares for…

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    Oregon’s Minimum Wage Bill

    With Governor Kate Brown’s signature, Oregon will likely soon rank as having the highest state-set minimum wage in the nation. Currently, the minimum wage in Oregon is $9.25 an…

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    More Evidence Raising the Minimum Wage Could Hurt More Than it Helps

    Broken promises are nothing new in politics, but the worst are those promises that actual hurt the very people whom the promises were intended to help. Increasing minimum wage is…

  • FDA Wants to Force You to Know How Many Calories You Eat image

    FDA Wants to Force You to Know How Many Calories You Eat

    Congress is considering legislation, the “Common Sense Nutrition Disclosure Act”, that would ease costly menu labeling requirements and give restaurants and other food retailers some much needed flexibility.

  • Raising the Minimum Wage: The Effects on Employment, Businesses and Consumers image

    Raising the Minimum Wage: The Effects on Employment, Businesses and Consumers

    Increasing the minimum wage may seem like a tool to raise low-income workers out of poverty, but it inevitably hurts the very people policymakers intend to help. When the government…

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    Regulatory Flexibility Act

    Regulatory Flexibility Act Summary A policy* to improve state rulemaking by creating procedures to analyze the availability of more flexible regulatory approaches for small businesses. Findings: (1) A…

  • Resolution in Support of Expansion of Foreign Markets for America’s Small Businesses image

    Resolution in Support of Expansion of Foreign Markets for America’s Small Businesses

    Resolution in Support of Expansion of Foreign Markets for America’s Small Businesses Summary This resolution outlines the benefits that accrue to companies (even small ones) that engage in international…

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    Food and Nutrition Act

    Food and Nutrition Act Summary The Food and Nutrition Act preempts towns, counties and other political subdivisions from enacting regulation in regards to food…