Hawley later said he supports the House bill’s work requirements, as well as efforts to go after fraud, but opposes that measure’s changes to the Medicaid provider tax and cost sharing. The House legislation seeks to limit a practice whereby states tax hospitals and other Medicaid providers in order to bolster their federal reimbursement levels, […]
Electric trucks accounted for 22% of light-duty commercial vehicle sales in April, from 13% in the same month last year, according to BloombergNEF. For bigger rigs, the increase is even more pronounced, with sales trebling to 15% of the total. Diesel demand is being menaced on two fronts, as liquefied natural gas had already been […]
In a digital-first world where automation rules and inboxes are jammed with pitches, one company has quietly taken the opposite route — and succeeded. OLN Inc, founded by Elijah Medge in 2007, runs on something older than the internet: face-to-face interaction. With its roots in Nashville and its reach now across 30 U.S. cities, OLN […]
British manufacturers have urged the government to ensure that small and medium-sized businesses are major beneficiaries of the UK’s rising defence spending by embedding legally binding offset agreements in future military procurement contracts. Ahead of the release of the government’s revised Defence Industrial Strategy, MakeUK Defence — the trade body representing more than 600 UK […]
Two of Britain’s largest bioethanol producers have issued stark warnings that a recent UK-US trade deal could trigger site closures and significant job losses across the sector, unless the government intervenes with targeted support. The concerns centre on the removal of a 19 per cent tariff on US ethanol imports as part of the transatlantic […]
More than two thirds (68 per cent) of leaders of small and medium-sized businesses believe that their company is resilient after weathering the recent storms brought on by external events. The annual American Express Business Barometer found that this sense of resilience was matched by growing optimism. Almost three quarters (73 per cent) of SME […]