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Minority Contracting and Affirmative Action for Disadvantaged Small Businesses: Legal Issues
Description:
This report discusses the minority participation “goals” that have been an integral part of federal policies to promote racial and gender equality in contracting on federally financed construction projects and in connection with other large federal contracts.
Date:
February 24, 2006
Creator:
Dale, Charles V.
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UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
Small Business Administration HUBZone Program
Description:
This report examines arguments both for and against targeting assistance to geographic areas with specified characteristics, such as low income, high poverty, or high unemployment, as opposed to providing assistance to people or businesses with specified characteristics. It then assesses the arguments both for and against the continuation of the HUBZone program
Date:
December 17, 2013
Creator:
Dilger, Robert Jay
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UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
General Motors' Initial Public Offering: Review of Issues and Implications for TARP
Description:
This report analyzes the progress General Motors Company has made since it was created from the sale of the bankrupt Old GM in July 2009 and the major issues related to its anticipated 2010 initial public offering (IPO).
Date:
November 10, 2010
Creator:
Canis, Bill; Webel, Baird & Shorter, Gary
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UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
The Inapplicability of Limitations on Subcontracting to "Preference Contracts" for Small Businesses: Washington-Harris Group
Description:
This report discusses Washington-Harris Group, a protest filed with the Government Accountability Office (GAO) alleging, among other things, that an agency improperly awarded a "preference contract" to a service-disabled veteran-owned small business that proposed to
subcontract a greater percentage of work on the contract than allowed under the Small Business Administration's limitations on subcontracting.
Date:
October 6, 2010
Creator:
Manuel, Kate M.
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UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
Small Business and the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970
Description:
This report describes the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA), which applies to non-governmental employers engaged in small businesses.
Date:
April 15, 1975
Creator:
Wander, Tom
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UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
State Corporate Income Taxes: A Description and Analysis
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No Description Available.
Date:
March 9, 2005
Creator:
Maguire, Steven
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State Corporate Income Taxes: A Description and Analysis
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No Description Available.
Date:
June 30, 2006
Creator:
Maguire, Steven
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UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
Financial Performance of the Major Oil Companies, 2007-2011
Description:
Periods of rising oil prices can result in reduced economic growth, rising prices, and reduced disposable incomes for consumers, as well as a deteriorating trade balance. For the oil industry,
periods of high oil prices generally imply increasing cash flows and higher profits. Although the U.S. oil industry is composed of many firms, to many the face of the oil industry is represented
by the five major firms operating extensively in the U.S. market. These firms are ExxonMobil, Chevron, BP plc…
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Date:
February 17, 2012
Creator:
Pirog, Robert
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UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
Association Health Plans: Legislation in the 109th Congress
Description:
An estimated 41.2 million people were without health insurance in 2001. Legislation under consideration by the 108th and earlier Congresses is intended to assist small employers in offering health insurance as a benefit to their workers. A new bill, H.R. 4281, introduced on May 5, 2004, The Small Business Health Fairness Act of 2003 (H.R. 6601s. 545), and a number of bills from the earlier Congresses include provisions creating new groups for small firms to join or encouraging the growth of exi…
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Date:
May 26, 2005
Creator:
Hearne, Jean P.
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UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
Association Health Plans, Health Marts and the Small Group Market for Health Insurance
Description:
An estimated 41.2 million people were without health insurance in 2001. Legislation under consideration by the 108th and earlier Congresses is intended to assist small employers in offering health insurance as a benefit to their workers. A new bill, H.R. 4281, introduced on May 5, 2004, The Small Business Health Fairness Act of 2003 (H.R. 6601s. 545), and a number of bills from the earlier Congresses include provisions creating new groups for small firms to join or encouraging the growth of exi…
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Date:
May 10, 2004
Creator:
Hearne, Jean P.
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UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
Association Health Plans, Health Marts and the Small Group Market for Health Insurance
Description:
An estimated 41.2 million people were without health insurance in 2001. Legislation under consideration by the 108th and earlier Congresses is intended to assist small employers in offering health insurance as a benefit to their workers. A new bill, H.R. 4281, introduced on May 5, 2004, The Small Business Health Fairness Act of 2003 (H.R. 6601s. 545), and a number of bills from the earlier Congresses include provisions creating new groups for small firms to join or encouraging the growth of exi…
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Date:
June 5, 2003
Creator:
Hearne, Jean P.
Partner:
UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
Association Health Plans, Health Marts and the Small Group Market for Health Insurance
Description:
An estimated 41.2 million people were without health insurance in 2001. Legislation under consideration by the 108th and earlier Congresses is intended to assist small employers in offering health insurance as a benefit to their workers. A new bill, H.R. 4281, introduced on May 5, 2004, The Small Business Health Fairness Act of 2003 (H.R. 6601s. 545), and a number of bills from the earlier Congresses include provisions creating new groups for small firms to join or encouraging the growth of exi…
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Date:
July 7, 2003
Creator:
Hearne, Jean P.
Partner:
UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
Association Health Plans, Health Marts and the Small Group Market for Health Insurance
Description:
An estimated 41.2 million people were without health insurance in 2001. Legislation under consideration by the 108th and earlier Congresses is intended to assist small employers in offering health insurance as a benefit to their workers. A new bill, H.R. 4281, introduced on May 5, 2004, The Small Business Health Fairness Act of 2003 (H.R. 6601s. 545), and a number of bills from the earlier Congresses include provisions creating new groups for small firms to join or encouraging the growth of exi…
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Date:
July 31, 2003
Creator:
Hearne, Jean P.
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UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
The Senate's Calendar of Business
Description:
This report provides a summary of the contents of the Senate's Calendar of Business, which lists bills, resolutions, and other items of legislative business that are eligible for floor consideration.
Date:
January 4, 2005
Creator:
Palmer, Betsy & Bach, Stanley
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UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
Business Investment and Employment Tax Incentives to Stimulate the Economy
Description:
This report consists of business investment and employment tax incentives to stimulate the economy.
Date:
January 6, 2012
Creator:
Hungerford, Thomas L. & Gravelle, Jane G.
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UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
Bundling and Consolidation of Contract Requirements Under the Small Business Act: Legal Overview
Description:
This report consists of the bundling and consolidation of contract requirements under the small business act and legal overview.
Date:
August 20, 2015
Creator:
Manuel, Kate M.
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UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
Business Investment and a Repeal of the Corporate Alternative Minimum Tax
Description:
This report consists of business investment and a repeal of the corporate alternative minimum tax.
Date:
March 5, 2002
Creator:
Guenther, Gary
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UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
Small Business Administration HUBZone Program
Description:
The Small Business Administration (SBA) administers several programs to support small businesses, including the Historically Underutilized Business Zone Empowerment Contracting (HUBZone) program. The HUBZone program is a small business federal contracting assistance program "whose primary objective is job creation and increasing capital investment in distressed communities." This report examines the arguments presented both for and against targeting assistance to geographic areas with specified…
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Date:
October 15, 2010
Creator:
Dilger, Robert Jay
Partner:
UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
The Human Investment Act: Pro and Con, 1966, March 2
Description:
This report is a descriptive journey of the pros and cons of the Human Investment Act.
Date:
March 2, 1966
Creator:
Murray, Marie
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UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
Energy Policy: The Continuing Debate
Description:
This report includes background and analysis of the debate on energy policy. Non-tax energy production initiatives, nuclear energy, and energy restructuring are also among topics discussed in this report.
Date:
October 17, 2003
Creator:
Bamberger, Robert L.
Partner:
UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
The Advanced Technology Program
Description:
President Bush's FY2008 budget request did not include financing for ATP. The FY2008 Consolidated Appropriations Act, P.L. 110-161, replaces ATP with the Technology Innovation Program (TIP) and provides $65.2 million (with an additional $5 million in ATP FY2007 unobligated balances), 17.6% less than the previous fiscal year. P.L. 110- 69, the America COMPETES Act, authorized the creation of TIP.
Date:
January 7, 2008
Creator:
Schacht, Wendy H.
Partner:
UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
The Franchise System of Distribution
Description:
This report covers the history and growth of financial distribution and how franchise distributes for their own benefits.
Date:
September 3, 1965
Creator:
Knight, Edward
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UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
Small Business Administration: A Primer on Programs
Description:
No Description Available.
Date:
January 20, 2006
Creator:
Weiss, N. Eric
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UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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