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AUGUST 21, 2020
Publishers’ Letter Spotlights ‘Apple Tax’ – and Digital News Delivery. Jim Cunha, senior vice president of secure payments and FinTech at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, tells Karen Webster why the Fed is working with MIT to explore digital dollars. The Main Street Rescue That Wasn’t (And Still Isn’t).
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APRIL 10, 2020
While many states where workers who receive a 1099 tax form instead or a W-2 and don’t qualify for benefits, the legislation provides cash for those independent contractors. But in Maine, at least, the benefits have yet to flow, according to the report. She said staff members are helping 50 clients a day apply for unemployment.
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JUNE 27, 2019
When small business (SMB) investment marketplace MainVest announced a $3 million Seed funding round last week, it did something that many Main Street SMBs cannot do. “Being in Boston, Massachusetts, I’m much less likely to invest in a restaurant in Oklahoma if the same business was right next to me,” Mathews said.
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JULY 22, 2019
Had I been in town, I might have used Google to find a store near me in Boston that carried the brand I wanted so I could try before I bought. Main Street merchants banded together in the early 1890s to complain to lawmakers about the impact of department stores on their own businesses. Sound familiar?
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FEBRUARY 27, 2016
A highly unscientific poll of our coworkers found that the average collection of people waiting for a bus in downtown Boston has a more cohesive political ideology than our staff, who are all supporting wildly different candidates for wildly different reasons. and we did (over 250 of them) , the reality becomes a bit different.
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MARCH 25, 2017
The changing of the guard from winter into spring — although in this case it seems like winter was relegated to all of three days, and possibly during Innovation Project 2017 , and possibly only in Boston. . But the metaphor that is most often deployed for the month may be the old chestnut of the lion and the lamb.
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MARCH 19, 2018
In the last few months alone, we’ve seen snow in Rome and three powerful nor’easters in Boston in the space of two and a half weeks — with some forecasts predicting a fourth this week. And that we should do that not because they’re tax evaders or evil — all things he said they, like all of us, are.
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