Businesses Embrace Piermont Plastic Bag/Styrofoam Ban
A new law banning plastic bags and Styrofoam containers is making Piermont’s business owners better environmental stewards, and encouraging other municipalities to follow suit.
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Category: Business
Rockland County finance, bankruptcy, environmental, employment
Businesses Are Backbone For Sloatsburg Food Pantry
A coin jar. A food drive. The use of a refrigerator. Selling eggs at cost. These, and many more, are the ways in which Sloatsburg-area businesses and beyond embrace a nonprofit that works to support the most vulnerable citizens in Sloatsburg, as well as Suffern, Hillburn, Airmont and Tuxedo.
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Employers Need To Be Current On Paid Family Benefits Law
Beginning January 1, 2019, employees who work for a private company in New York State who have worked 26 consecutive weeks as a full-time employee, or 175 days as a part-time employee, may be eligible for Paid Family Leave.
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Stock Market Jitters But Doesn’t Crater During Gov’t Shutdowns
The US government has been reopened – for now – but we might be back in the same place in three weeks.
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Sears May Survive But It’s Too Late For The Nanuet Store
Sears Holdings Corp Chairman Eddie Lampert prevailed in a bankruptcy auction for the U.S. department store chain with an improved takeover bid of roughly $5.2 billion, allowing the 126-year-old retailer to keep its doors open.
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Will Hedge Fund Gobble Up The Journal News In Hostile Takeover?
What will happen to the Journal News if Gannett Co. agrees to be bought out by MNG Enterprises Inc., a newspaper group backed by a hedge fund with a reputation for making deep cost cuts without investing sufficiently to bolster a papers’ long-term sustainability?
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December Jobs Report, 2019 Outlook and Portfolio Repair Strategy
Last Friday we had a great jobs report, with 312,000 jobs created through December, bringing the 2018 total jobs tally to 2.64 million
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Minimum Wage Increases in Rockland Lower Than Westchester, New York City
Minimum wage workers in New York will see their paychecks go up this year, along with those in 19 other states and two dozen cities and counties.
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Grant Recipients In Rockland To Expand Businesses and Revitalize Communities
The Regional Economic Development Council awards include $87.1 million for 122 projects in the Mid-Hudson Region, including Rockland County.
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How A QBI Deduction Can Help You
The QBI deduction is 20% of qualified business income.
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