The $2.2 trillion response deal allows small businesses to acquire grants and loans up to 125 percent of their payroll with the opportunity for loan forgiveness for businesses that can quickly ramp up or sustain their workforces.
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New stimulus bill provides billions in loans to small businesses that can be converted to grants that will not require repayment.
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The bill requires employers of small companies to pay up to $511 a day for sick leave and up to $200 a day for family leave.
Read moreThe group’s guiding principles call for policies that support science-based research, voluntary incentive-based conservation programs, investment in infrastructure, and solutions that ensure vibrant rural communities and a healthy planet.
Read moreCiting the potential for “mass confusion, chaos and delays” at U.S. airports starting Oct. 1, members of Congress last week introduced legislation to head off travel disruption caused by the Real ID deadline.
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Farm and ranch groups representing millions of U.S. producers are launching a coalition committed to environmental and economic sustainability.
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EDA’s Natalie Higgins said the association has “worked in lockstep” with AEM and other associations to oppose “an onslaught of so-called right-to-repair bills …”
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The Trump administration has boosted the number of workers eligible for overtime, extending pay requirements for about 1.3 million people.
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This action officially ends an egregious power grab and sets the stage for a new rule that will provide much-needed regulatory certainty for farmers, home builders, and property owners nationwide.
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EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler said it is “irresponsible to require labels on products that are inaccurate when EPA knows the product does not pose a cancer risk.”
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Illinois has joined the national trend of banning questions regarding a job applicant’s salary history. It is effective Sept. 29.
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A U.S. Appeals court has affirmed a preliminary injunction against a statute regulating relationships between manufacturers and farm equipment dealers. Our Association is not a party to the case but hopes the courts ultimately rule that competing products can occupy space together on a dealer’s lot.
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Senate Finance Committee Chuck Grassley warned the European Union on Tuesday that insisting on excluding agriculture from any trade deal
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Senate Finance Chairman Chuck Grassley and five other leading Republican senators went to the White House last week to level
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) rolled out an extensive agriculture platform during a recent campaign stop in Iowa. It included a
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