Early March or late February, we began to get the postponement and cancellation calls for our upcoming catering events...
COVID-19 Articles
Hydraflow: Operating Business During Pandemic
We sent out our first memo regarding COVID-19 government recommendations on March 11 to employees. Then there were a...
Loutech: Dealing with COVID-19
The unraveling of the economy was not in the plans for Loutech in So Cal. We thought we would be bringing our...
Root Family of Florida and COVID-19
Our 120 year old family business operates a commercial real estate business with a staff of 13 in our offices. Our...
Pomerleau Real Estate Supports Local Community During COVID19
We placed local ads….”support local business”/ thank you ads and inspirational…not only good to community to see, but...
Analysis of Legislative/Administrative Developments in the 117th Congress
President Biden was sworn in as the 46th President of the United States on January 20 and quickly issued a series of...
Taxation & Representation
TAX TIDBIT Advancing the Biden Tax Policy Agenda. With Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock winning both Senate runoff...
Summary of COVID-19 Relief Provisions Relevant to Local Governments
On Sunday, December 27, President Trump signed into law a nearly 6,000-page end-of-year legislative package that...
Congress Passes Omnibus, COVID-19 Relief
On Dec. 20, the House and Senate passed H.R. 133, The Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021. The bill includes a...
Results of FEUSA 2020 COVID- 19 survey and impact on Family Businesses
Here is a recap of the family business responses to the COVID-19 survey that was sent out by FEUSA over the last 6...
Status Of The November Election, Potential Tax Policy Opportunities, and Additional COVID-19 Relief Legislation
Pat Soldano welcomed supporters to the call and provided an overview of the topics to be discussed: the status of the...
C&S Provides PTO, Bonuses To Employees For Covid-19 Challenges
Keene, New Hampshire-based C&S Wholesale Grocers Inc., the largest wholesale grocery supply company in the U.S.,...
Publix deploys contactless payment for extra COVID-19 safety
Publix Super Markets expects to complete the rollout of contactless payment to all of its more than 1,200 stores in...
Bechtel Group Foundation Establishes Bechtel COVID-19 Relief Fund in Partnership with GlobalGiving
The Bechtel Group Foundation will donate $3 million to communities across the world coping with the coronavirus...
Tyson Foods adopts weekly coronavirus testing for workers
Tyson Foods is launching weekly on-site coronavirus testing for employees at all 140 of its U.S. production...
Lee Company pivots to aid ventilator-making effort
As General Motors and other companies push to make ventilators to help COVID-19 patients streaming into U.S....
This approach helps e-commerce company thrive during COVID
It’s a good time to be in the e-commerce business – but not exactly an easy time. “We didn’t think a global pandemic...
Ford Will Provide COVID-19 Testing for Employees As Plants Reopen
Symptomatic employees in Michigan, Kentucky, Missouri and Illinois will be tested at area healthcare facilities in...
Comcast employees reactivate their service to aid in COVID-19 response
In the midst of the COVID-19 surge in the United States, help has been needed across many fronts as the nation deals...
News Corp campaign thanks front-line retail staff for their work during COVID-19
Newsagents, and supermarkets, convenience stores, and petrol station staff are among the front-line worker's News Corp...
Walmart is considering testing its employees for the novel coronavirus and COVID-19 antibodies
Walmart CEO Doug McMillon said Tuesday that the company is considering implementing employee testing for the novel...
HEALS Act Safe and Healthy Workplace Tax Credit Guide for Employers
The July 27, 2020, Senate draft of the Health, Economic Assistance, Liability Protection and Schools (“HEALS”) Act...
HEALS Act Comparison to HEROES Act and Current Law
On Monday, July 27, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) released the Health, Economic Assistance, Liability...
Mother-daughter team draws on ‘wealth of experience’ to help clients through uncertain times
With nearly three decades of financial advising behind her, Mary J. Howard knows a lot about helping others navigate...
When cupcakes met COVID: How one family business pivoted to sweet success
Inspiration had struck, and Melissa Johnson was going with it. “As I’ve grown older, I can’t say I’ve necessarily...
Business is ‘popping’ during the pandemic for fifth-generation popcorn company
As soon as people nationwide began staying home to prevent the spread of COVID-19, they began watching movies. And...
Trump Visits Guilford, Maine to Thank Puritan Employees
June 5, 2020 – President Trump visited Guilford, Maine today and toured the Puritan Medical Products headquarters....
Family businesses flex their creativity, capacity during COVID-19
After 132 years in business, you learn how to adapt. So when COVID-19 forced Montgomery’s to cancel its annual...
How Did You Help During the Great Pandemic?
Our company was founded by my grandpa in 1953 as Seneca Sawmill. We are now owned by my mother and my two aunts. We...
Family business owners weigh in on taxes, regulation
Family Enterprise USA’s 2020 survey sheds light on factors that family business owners see as obstacles to growth....
The Future of Family Businesses: Social Distancing and New Business Models
Plan to Attend: COVID-19 required many family firms to change the way they do business, from checking employees’...
COVID-19 Public Policy Group Report – June 2, 2020
For the first time since early 2020, the dominant topic in the American policy debate is not the COVID-19 pandemic....
COVID-19 & Capital Hill
The Senate has left for their Memorial Day district work period. When the upper chamber returns on June 1, it's likely...
Getting America Open Again
While the world is slowly starting to open up and move toward “normal,” it seems as if DC has already gotten there –...
Coronavirus Economic Response Update
What to Expect in Next Economic Recovery Package House Democrats’ Opening Bid—The HEROES Act Only four days after its...
Mars Commits $20M to Communities in COVID-19 Response
As part of its ongoing response to the global COVID-19 pandemic, family-owned Mars, Incorporated has today shared an...
The Virus Is Vaporizing Tax Revenues, Putting States in a Bind
The overwhelming news from the states is the financial impact COVID-19 is having on their bottom line…and precisely...
Congress Moved Quickly to Pass Costly Aid Package
If you're a regular reader of these updates, this week's will seem like Deja vu. Congress moved quickly to pass a...
How Did You Help During the Great Pandemic?
There is one word I typically avoid and usually cringe when it is used: unprecedented. Its inclusion is for dramatic...
COVID-19 Public Policy Group Report – April 28, 2020
Contacts Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP squirepattonboggs.com David B. Stewart Principal, Washington DC David Schnittger...
COVID-19 Public Policy Group Report – April 22 2020
The U.S. Senate gave its approval yesterday to a $500 billion interim coronavirus relief measure providing additional...
COVID-19 Public Policy Group Report – April 20, 2020
The U.S. Congress is expected this week to reach agreement on and pass a bill to add hundreds of billions of dollars...
COVID-19 Public Policy Group Report – April 17, 2020
The federal Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), established weeks ago under the bipartisan CARES Act to provide a...