The iconic corporate environment – with its sea of cubicles surrounded by private offices and oversized conference rooms – is dead. Why? Because traditional office environments are inefficient, expensive and uninspiring to employees.
Economists look at taxes from several perspectives. These include fairness among those with similar and different abilities to pay, simplicity in administration, connectedness between payors and beneficiaries, adequacy to cover costs and stability over time.
When local governments understand the public benefits of working collaboratively with infrastructure providers, deployment is swift and the outcome is a more connected, safer community.
Under the FMLA, eligible employees may take up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave from their covered employer (this includes both private and government employers).
Coal companies angrily resisted the switch. The Colorado Mining Association predicted "dramatically higher electricity rates." No, not really, responded the Colorado Oil and Gas Association. It said this was the cheapest way to improve Colorado's air quality.