Category Archives: Taxes & The Economy

29 Mar
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The SEC’s Regulatory Agenda Favors Big Corporations Over Investors and Everyday Americans

Sound economic policy appropriately crafted and scrutinized allows the free market to do what it does best: provide a wide range of opportunities for all Americans, regardless of status, wealth, or background. Unfortunately, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), ...

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27 Dec
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OAN Interview Regarding the Department of Labor’s ‘Fiduciary Rule’

Today One America News interviewed HLF’s president about the harm to minority communities that would result from a reinstatement of the so-called “fiduciary rule” that is being strongly considered by the U.S. Department of Labor.  HLF has a recent report ...

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08 Nov
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New Research Shows Damaging Effect of “Fiduciary Rule” on Retirement Savings and Wealth Gap

HLF today released an in-depth analysis of the U.S. Department of Labor’s 2016 fiduciary rule—a regulation meant to help financial services consumers by seeking to legally ensure that advisors were acting in their customers’ best interest.   But despite the ...

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06 Oct
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HLF Ad Campaign Encouraging Members of Congress to Support Small Business

HLF just finished a two week online ad campaign encouraging some of the Democrats in Congress who have shown a willingness to support small business.  Congress is currently considering a myriad of extreme progressive bills and proposals that would raise ...

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04 Oct
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Proposed “ABC Test” Regulation Test Break’s President Biden’s Tax Pledge, New Study Confirms

We’ve previously made the case that the “ABC Test”, a proposal intended to overhaul our nation’s worker classification regulations, would make life much harder for workers and small business owners if it were signed into law.  The ABC Test would ...

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09 Aug
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HLF in the Media: Radio Interview, Orlando. STEP Act, Other Topics

Below is a recent radio interview from the Matt Buff Radio Show in Orlando.  Matt asks HLF president Mario H. Lopez about the role of HLF, communicating to audiences of recent immigrants and its relation to policy, and the recently ...

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02 Aug
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Senate Labor Panel Hearing Again Shows Dangers of PRO Act

Last week, the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) held a hearing on the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act. See our previous post on this, as well as an op-ed from HLF’s president. The ...

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26 Jun
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Rhode Island Considers Beverage Taxes

As Rhode Island becomes the latest jurisdiction to consider beverage taxes, HLF’s president recently appeared on the In the Dugout podcast to shed light on why beverage taxes are a bad idea. Taxing underserved communities and threatening small businesses is ...

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