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 Community and Family Services is offering a grant designed to help local employers retain existing jobs in the community.
It can provide a partial wage subsidy to the employer for income-eligible employees who may be in danger of layoff or who are already on layoff.
Community and Family Services obtained the grant through the state, and the wage subsidy [...]

How the New Law Will Impact Your Bottom Line
Now that health care reform legislation with a true price tag of nearly $2 trillion is the law of the land, many small business owners are asking how they will be impacted. The answer is to expect higher costs and more mandates.
Mandates. The new law forces small [...]

–> New York, N.Y. ” April 21, 2010 ” Despite the ubiquitous and relentless buzz around social media, most small businesses today aren’t leveraging the basic online tools readily available to them to help grow their businesses, according to the latest small business survey by Citibank.
According to the survey of 552 small business executives across [...]

 Unemployment Insurance and DWD Provisions
• Delays Unemployment Insurance Tax Increase for One Year
• Jury Exemption for UI Benefits
 An individual cannot be denied benefits because the individual is responding to a summons for jury service.
• Compliance Center
 Makes the compliance center provisions passed last year conform with federal Dept. of Labor regulations
• Voluntary Buy-downs
 [...]

Property Tax Provisions
· Specifies the exact wording of the constitutional property tax cap ballot question language.
 
· Includes attached decks, gazebos, and other residential yard structures (other than a swimming pool) in the definition of “homestead.” (SB 239)
 
· Allows DLGF to make an adjustment to the civil taxing unit’s maximum property tax levy if the [...]

Underlying votes, strategies, and goals this legislative session were the fall elections and drawing the new district maps as a result of the decennial census.  Also, with Bayh’s and other vulnerable seats at least 6 current or former state legislators are seeking congressional seats.
Of the 811 filed, only 116 went to the Governor for final [...]

The Northeast Indiana Chamber Coalition summarizes the 2010 Session
2010 Indiana State Session Summary

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