The Tax Implications for Small Businesses Inside the Omnibus
The year of 2023 is shaping up to be a rough one for small and midsize businesses. Borrowing costs are at 13-year highs, demand is slowing along with the economy and now they'll pay more in taxes.
Higher taxes come compliments of re...
Mobile Homes Are a Crucial Source of Affordable Housing. Politicians Are Trying To Zone Them Out of Town.
Across the country, legislators are piling on regulations and restrictions that make it harder to build and maintain affordable housing at a time of desperate need.
In Dover-Foxcroft, a small town in Maine, a drafted moratorium on ma...
The Next Frontier of the Fight for Abortion Rights Is Privacy Law
The Supreme Court ruling to overturn Roe v. Wade and the ensuing response from certain states have launched a national battle to protect the right to an abortion. Among others, a new front has emerged: the right to reproductive privacy.
It's Time for California to Guarantee a Right to Counsel to Low-Income Tenants
There are few clearer "David and Goliath" scenarios in modern American life than tenants and landlords, particularly when it comes to legal representation during eviction proceedings. Nationwide, only 3 percent of tenants are represented in these...
The federal government needs to step in and avert a homeowner's insurance crisis
Climate change may not have hit your home yet with a wildfire, windstorm, or flooding, but it's still barreling toward millions of people with an increasingly urgent threat: a homeowner's insurance crisis.
Annual insurance bills a...
We've Been Played By The Political Industrial Complex
In a prescient farewell address 60 years ago, U.S. president Dwight D. Eisenhower predicted the rise of America's military industrial complex. Yet as visionary as he was, Eisenhower missed the rise of another complex - one that is arguably mo...