CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A legislative audit has found that the Jobs Act enacted by West Virginia lawmakers in 2001 in hopes of assuring that 75 percent of ...

Advocates for the JOBS Act are on the Hill this week, hoping to add to its already impressive list of sponsors from both sides of the aisle. The bill would amend ...

By Christie Hicks and Andrew Barbeau. The rollout of Illinois' Clean Energy Jobs Act (CEJA) has focused attention on the bill's four main pillars: a 100% ...

Companies spent 200 times as much cash on their own stock last year as the $4.4 billion spent on employee bonuses.

The bipartisan legislation would help to connect young people to the workforce and future careers, which is critical for a healthy economy and well-functioning ...

The Jobs Act was enacted in 2001 with the goal of deriving at least 76 percent of workers on publicly funded improvement projects from the local labor force.

Vote Solar reports that more than 12500 Maryland residents and businesses have made phone calls, sent emails or appeared at the Capitol in person urging.

Virginia tax officials are reminding taxpayers that they must file their individual income taxes by July 1 in order to qualify for the Tax Relief Refund.

Deficits that arise from tax cuts aren't as bad as those that come from spending increases.

Albemarle has reaffirmed its commitment to create South West jobs despite concerns contractors have brought workers temporarily to the region to construct the ...

Sen. Kamala Harris has a new plan to help unemployed and underemployed workers obtain the job training they need: give them the money to do so.

With the help of new pro-growth policies like tax reform and regulatory relief, the economy is growing and many businesses across the state are expanding their.

However, donations by corporations and foundations have increased.

The U.S. budget deficit is now almost $740 billion, the Treasury Department reported last week, prompting a new round of familiar criticism of 2017's Tax Cut and ...

U.S. Wind, a Baltimore-based wind company, welcomes Maryland Governor Larry Hogan's administration's decision to allow the Clean Energy Jobs Act (CEJA) ...

Age discrimination in the U.S. is being fueled by multinational corporations based in foreign countries that have policies which are considered ageist here.

Markets are treading water this morning ahead of the Fed's rate decision at 2 p.m. Nobody expects a cut — despite pressure from President Donald Trump — but ...

The Financial Education & Research Foundation speaks with BYU Professor Troy Lewis about the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) winners and losers and how ...

Climate change is one of the greatest challenges of our time, one that becomes more visible every day with media coverage of its impacts in different parts of the ...

The Internal Revenue *Service* (IRS) has issued additional guidance on state or local tax (SALT) cap workarounds and there are no real surprises. The guidance ...

President Donald Trump kicked off his re-election campaign with a rally in Orlando, Fla., a key state in the path to victory. Trump offered a long list of ...

A new report by John Burns Real Estate Consulting attempts to quantify and forecast the real estate impact of 2017's Tax Cuts and Jobs Act and takes stock of ...

Americans gave less money to charity in 2018 and some experts think the GOP tax overhaul is to blame. Total donations fell 1.7% in inflation-adjusted terms to ...

Opportunity Zones have divided our cities and towns into winner and loser zones, while encouraging political corruption.

While some Democratic presidential candidates have talked about repealing the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act in full, Blo.

There are now only three weeks before the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals is scheduled to hear oral arguments in Texas v. United States, the latest…

Ahead of a slowdown on its fiber build-outs, AT&T plans to cut 1800 jobs from its wireline division by August or September. The 1800 job cuts across 24 states ...

The Securities and Exchange Commission is seeking comments on the current securities exemption structure. In a release yesterday, the SEC asked the public.

We hear a lot about suicide when celebrities like Anthony Bourdain and Kate Spade die by their own hand. Otherwise, it seldom makes the headlines. That's odd ...

Former Vice President Joe Biden said Monday that his first order of business if he is elected president is to repeal the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.

Opportunity zones are meant to spur new investment in poor areas. But Under Armour's Kevin Plank is getting a tax break for investments that are not new and ...

LAKEWOOD, Colo. — Preliminary data based on over 3,000 tax returns indicate that the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act had an overall positive impact on ...

For some U.S. citizens, the Trump administration's 2017 tax cuts provided an economic boost. But for Carrie, a 50-year-old doctor living in Amsterdam, they have ...

Job growth has been running 80% stronger in low-tax states than in high-tax states since the passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 in December 2017.

IN 2017, CONGRESS passed the Tax Cut and Jobs Act. Embedded in the act were two new IRS sections known as 1400Z-1 and 1400Z-2. Commonly referred to ...

Conway's job is to support Trump's allies. Save the Hatch Act for real wrongdoing, like threats to fire government workers if they oppose a president.

If we examine the impact of the Trump presidency using three criteria - the Constitution, Christianity, and Capitalism – we will discover that on all three fronts, ...

It's not possible in today's environment to talk about economic growth without addressing an increasingly large skills gap that limits the growth of our companies ...

There are ways to build in the flexibility to make changes.

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), signed into law on December 22, 2018, delivered sweeping changes to the federal tax code. These changes brought with.

President Donald Trump is awarding Dr. Arthur Laffer -- the “Father of Supply-Side Economics” -- the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The move to award him the ...

Stop me if you've heard this one before: Elected officials are calling faith leaders and social workers to Capitol Hill to talk about how the U.S. might begin helping ...

Walmart got over $2 billion in extra money thanks to Trump and the GOP. Instead of investing that in its workers, it's continuing to lay them off. At the same time ...

The city, in pursuit of progressive values, has made the San Francisco tax code a misbegotten hodgepodge of financial chicanery. A new CEO tax would make ...

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota unveiled a comprehensive plan for her first 100 days in the White House if she is able to ...

Federal tax payments by big businesses are falling much faster than anticipated in the wake of Republicans' tax cuts, providing ammunition to Democrats who ...

Maryland's foam ban and ambitious clean energy goals have become law. A bid to change how the state regulates its oyster industry got tripped up — at least for ...

Stuff reporter and horror hair-do veteran Charlotte Carter explores your rights as a consumer after a horrific haircut or hair-dye, and the obligations of the ...

The Biomass Thermal Energy Council and 140 members of the BTU Act Coalition are urging members of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives to ...

It's not a normal tax refund, but almost 350000 Virginia taxpayers are running out of time to receive a one-time payment this fall as part of the state's response to.

(Bloomberg Opinion) -- The opportunity zones created by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 have all been set up, and the money has started to flow. When will ...

Advocates say previous clean energy legislation did too little to close the solar industry's diversity gap.

PIPELINES: A campaign to convince Michigan residents to support a tunnel project for the Line 5 pipeline intensifies after negotiations between the state and the ...

Michigan Republicans believe Trump has a solid chance of winning the state again in 2020.

Today's students are simply paying more for the same degree from a higher education system that increasingly encourages students to take on unjustifiable ...

Just named chairman of Wine Institute, the proprietor of Alexander Valley Vineyards reveals his to-do list for the 1000-plus-member San Francisco-based ...

According to the Fantasy Sports Trade Association (FSTA), fantasy sports is a $7 billion industry, with 59.3 million people in the United States and.

THE Women's Aid Organisation (WAO) is calling for the introduction of at least seven days of paternity leave, in light of upcoming amendments to the ...

Originally rolled out in December 2017 as part of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, the Opportunity Zone Program was designed to incentivize long-term investment in ...

RENO, Nev. — Many of the new federal tax laws enacted in late 2017 required tax preparers in Northern Nevada to scramble during the recently closed tax ...

CHARLESTON — Representatives of the three teacher and school *service* personnel unions released a poll Monday showing vast opposition to the West ...

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin writes that the American economy is stronger today than it was before the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. President Trump's ...

Getting ready to file your taxes? Your tax preparation software should make all the new paperwork changes to tax forms and schedules invisible to you, but you ...

The Litecoin Foundation has announced a partnership with Bibox Exchange and blockchain firm Ternio to release a physical cryptocurrency debit card, in a blog ...

The ACT has lost one in 10 of its federal public *service* jobs since the Coalition came to power, as regional cities in Victoria and NSW amassed bureaucrats.

HURRIED THROUGH Congress in late 2017, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) was the biggest overhaul to America's tax system in more than 30 years.

Mario Draghi is credited with saving the euro through decisive action as president of the European Central Bank. Which makes it all the more important who ...

Senators Tim Kaine and Rob Portman take issue with an Upshot column that criticizes their bill.

William Gale looks at the effects of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) nearly one year after it was first passed.

The federal bank regulatory agencies issued a final rule requiring that certain municipal obligations be treated as high-quality liquid assets if the municipal ...

By Christie Hicks and Andrew Barbeau. Illinois has once again put itself at the forefront of the movement to promote a clean energy economy. In March, we wrote ...

Opportunity Zones are a critical part of President Trump's efforts to bring economic opportunity to communities that have been left behind.

In short, the reason the TCJA didn't increase investment is that most companies are already over-investing.

View related *content*: Economics. Abstract. This paper provides a distributional analysis of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act that became law in December 2017, with ...

April 11 (Renewables Now) - The US state of Maryland has passed a bill that will double its renewable electricity standard by 2030, press on solar and faci.

As 2018 draws to a close, let's take a look back at the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, which was signed into effect approximately one year ago. Entrepreneurs ...

Bill Gale and Aaron Krupkin analyze the effects of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act on revenues in 2018, finding the TCJA did not pay for itself.

It could set off a new wave of exploitation by the same for-profit colleges that have already wasted billions of taxpayer dollars.

At least, we have one year's worth of inflation-adjusted data on post-tax-cut revenue. It's down a bunch.

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) was signed by the president approximately one year ago, on December 22, 2017. Although many of the provisions have ...

Republicans in the House and Senate are making another legislative push to enforce work requirements for able-bodied adults on welfare. Sen. Steve Daines ...

Kristin Cook is a leader with 350 Montgomery County. Mike Tidwell is director of the Chesapeake Climate Action Network. In the year 2030, people will buy ...

The Constitutional Court recently declared Article 3 of the Jobs Act, which provides the formula to calculate damages for the unlawful dismissal of employees ...

Fewer returns are in, traffic to the IRS website is up, and everyone's complaining about refunds. Why?

Anne Pramaggiore, Exelon senior executive VP and CEO of Exelon Utilities, testified today in support of the Blue Collar to Green Collar Jobs Development Act, ...

Jobs. Equity. Savings. Economic development. Social justice. These are a few of the terms being used to describe the ground-breaking Clean Energy Jobs Act, ...

“We need the benefits of clean energy to reach all 102 counties in Illinois as we put Illinois on a path to 100% clean energy by 2050.” Ashley Curtin ...

Maryland will lose out on approximately $247 million in federal tax credits between 2019 and 2022 if passage of the proposed Maryland Clean Energy Jobs Act ...

Earlier this month, the United States Treasury Department announced in its monthly report on government receipts and outlays that the federal deficit—the gap ...

Solar industry leaders and advocates celebrated today as the Maryland state lawmakers passed the Clean Energy Jobs Act or CEJA (SB 516 / HB 1158), which.

In a major speech to a liberal group outlining her priorities as chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) sharply ...

While the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) did not change the rules for the child and dependent care tax credit (CDCTC), the law lowered the value of the credit for ...

Lawmakers think the JOBS and Investor Confidence Act will give a boost to the U.S. economy.

After the first of the year, control of the House of Representatives will move over to the Democrat party following mid-term elections. While the Senate.

Via Teleconference. 11:37 A.M. EDT. MS. DITTO: Good morning, everyone. Thank you for joining the call this morning. I will just walk you through a few ground ...

Many corporations made good on promises to raise wages and pay bonuses. But others announced layoffs, even as the $1.5 trillion tax cut added billions to ...

View related *content*: Economics. The centerpiece of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act that passed in December 2017 was without a doubt the large cut in the federal ...

With the overwhelming majority of Americans supporting a full transition to 100% clean energy, Vote Solar, a national nonprofit that advocates for.

Linda Sugin, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, at Fordham University School of Law thinks about the Tax Cuts And Jobs Act in a much different way then ...

Recent release of full year 2018 Gross Domestic Product figures illustrates how the Tax Cut and Jobs Act (TCJA) that passed Congress in December 2017 ...