Word: creditably
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...flat-out paying companies to hire, or by reducing their share of payroll taxes (the money that gets withheld from workers' paychecks to pay for Social Security and Medicare). Either way, adding a new worker becomes cheaper. We last tried this in the 1970s - the mechanism was a tax credit for hiring - and the results weren't particularly remarkable, though part of that could have had something to do with the structure of the credit...
Boost Access to Credit for Growing Businesses Small businesses - or, to be more precise, young businesses - create a disproportionate share of new jobs. To do that, they need to grow, and to do that, they often need access to credit. While the ability of large firms to borrow has pretty much returned to normal, many smaller firms are still struggling to get the money they need from banks. It's a problem that even Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has talked about in recent weeks. The seeming solution: help get small, growing companies loans and the jobs will follow...
...government has already taken a number of steps in this realm, largely through the Small Business Administration. The issue with increasing access to credit, though, is that easy money was one of the main reasons we wound up on the brink of economic calamity in the first place. Taken as a group, new businesses may be job creators, but any sort of average masks the fact that many young companies completely combust. Lending to them is risky, and while it may be desirable to lend more in an attempt to create jobs, there is a flip side to the coin...
Cambridge police just released this photo of the man who quietly robbed the Harvard University Employees Credit Union last week by presenting a letter to the teller...
...Trying Game To its credit, Ramu Nico has done far more than the average Chinese state-owned enterprise to repair its image and court community approval. Unlike most other Chinese firms, the company responds promptly to international press queries and has published a comprehensive project sustainability report. Ramu NiCo has an English-language website that bandies about the proper catchphrases for a FORTUNE 500 subsidiary: sustainable development, competitive benefits, cross-cultural human resources. The glass-sheathed Ramu NiCo headquarters in the town of Madang, where the fastest pace of life is set by swarms of flying foxes, boasts human-resources...