Health Insurance Scams Claim Many Victims

In today's fast paced world, business owners don't often have the time to thoroughly check out the companies they rely on to provide goods and services. In many cases, a determination of product/service quality can be made at the time goods are delivered or services are...

The USA and Universal Healthcare

Universal Healthcare is primarily an ideology championed by the Democrats. However, contrary to popular belief, a nationalized health care system for all Americans, has never been on the agenda for President Obama. Read more about President Obama's healthcare policy...

Avoid Health Insurance Woes: 10 Questions To Ask Your Agent

If you are a business owner, self-employed or an employee of a company that is not offering medical coverage though your employer, you may have to undertake the frustrating, daunting and time consuming task of purchasing health insurance on your own. If this is the...

Harper campaign promise: Open EI program to self-employed

The campaigning game keeps getting hotter in the Canadian Election, with Prime Minister Stephen Harper announcing today that he wants to open up Employment Insurance benefits to the self-employed.  The move...

Big Brother for freelance slackers

Freelancers are sometimes envied for late breakfasts, all-day pyjama-fests, and other work-at-home delights, but as the Globe and Mail reports today, there's a website raining on the parade.It's called oDesk.com, and it connects freelancers with employers for one-off...

Lisbon Treaty - Survey highlights strong No campaign

There is no doubting the fact that Irish people, in general, are in favour of EU membership which explains why the politicians were so shocked by the rejection of the Lisbon Treaty. The Eurobarometer telephone...

'Shamed' Austrian man kills family with ax

I wish this weren't real.  Another father murders his family."(CNN) -- An Austrian man has confessed to killing five members of his family with an ax, Vienna police said Wednesday....

Take This Job and Shove It: When Quitting Is the Only Answer

According to the article referenced below, sometimes it's better to leave a destructive workplace with no immediate prospects than it is to stay and continue in a destructive cycle. Complicating this, though, is...

The Passionate Entrepreneur - Employee to Entrepreneur

"This year, like every year, over a million people in the United States will start a business. Many millions more will start businesses worldwide. Hopefully, most will start their companies because they're following a dream. Some, regretfully, will become entrepreneurs...

the four million Tax-Dodging illegal immigrants need to shape-up or ship-out

The Tax-Paying illegal immigrants pay Social Security and Medicare. The Tax-Dodging illegal immigrants cost American taxpayers billions of dollars each year.

Declining Public Sector

" Federal public sector jobs have declined since 1990. So has employment in the Post Office and other Canadian government businesses.What has increased is contracting out of public sector work , which Stats Canada defines as self employment. Such contracting out allows the...

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