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Farmers Business Network Raises $250 Million

Small Business Labs

  According to their press release : FBN is an advocate for family farmers and ranchers and is committed to the premise that true price transparency levels the playing field for farmers – regardless of geography or size – and also enhances competition at the manufacturing, wholesaling and retailing levels. . 

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Rapid Work Style Shifts Are Tanking Tax Revenues — Can City Planners Catch Up?

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These valuation changes have repercussions for local public finances and financial sector stability,” according to the study. . Today, almost 90% of our workforce is working fully remote or in a hybrid work environment, and workplace flexibility is essential to attracting and retaining our top talent,” Centene said in a press release.

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Some Companies Are Asking Employees to Pay for Training to Increase Buy-in. But Does It Work?

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In July 2022, the Student Borrower Protection Center released a report titled Trapped at Work: How Big Business Uses Student Debt to Restrict Worker Mobility detailing the issue. Many experts find the practice to be not only unethical, but potentially predatory on employees.

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How Employers Can Better Serve Neurodiverse Employees in 2023

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IO psychology program manager at HireVue , which specializes in “video interviewing, assessments and text-enabled recruiting tools,” according to a company press release , conducted research that determined using games leads to less unfair “screening out” that regularly happens with traditional hiring methods. Colin Willis, Ph.D.,

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Worsening Access To Finance For UK Small Business

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Worsening Access To Finance For UK Small Business by Stefan Töpfer on Nov 16, 2009 Following on from my interview on CNBC, I came under fire with some criticism for suggesting the banks and the government is failing small business with access to affordable finance. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0

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The Rise of Online Lending

Small Business Labs

It was released in conjunction with an announcement that Intuit and Fundbox  are partnering on a new product that allows small businesses a simple way to fix their cash flow by advancing payments for their outstanding invoices within QuickBooks. As the report chart below points out, small business lending is broken.

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How Women Are Rising in Business

Success

She taught financial managers to shift from stranded fossil fuel assets, realize the benefits of what she called “ ethical biomimicry finance , operating your company on nature’s principles” and act in the best interests of not only the shareholders but also the stakeholders—employees, customers, the community and the planet.

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