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It is essential for any policy protecting precision agriculture to designate an individual to oversee a corporation’s compliance to data privacy principles. [read post]
28 Aug 2020, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
The tensions date back to April, when eight progressive groups wrote a letter calling on Joe Biden to vow not to appoint any “current or former Wall Street executives or corporate lobbyists, or people affiliated with the fossil fuel, health insurance or private prison corporations” to his transition team, Cabinet, or as top aides. [read post]
17 May 2020, 9:08 pm by Series of Essays
— 2020-2021 Editorial Board of The Regulatory Review Simone Hussussian, Editor-in-Chief February 26, 2020 | The Health Sharing Duck| Health care sharing ministries seem similar to traditional health insurance, but they evade the scrutiny of federal and state regulators. [read post]
Mortgage Foreclosure and Eviction Moratorium The CARES Act allows a borrower who has a federally backed mortgage guaranteed, insured, or made by the USDA to request a forbearance if the borrower is experiencing financial hardship due to Covid-19. [read post]
28 Mar 2020, 7:32 am
Also $17 billion to help small businesses repay existing loans; $10 billion for grants up to $10,000 for small businesses to pay operating costs.Emergency unemployment insurance: $260 billion. [read post]
29 Jan 2020, 9:26 am by skelly
 Department of the Treasury and effectively serves as a federal think tank for development of federal policy positions on insurance regulation and the federal liaison to state insurance regulators and their foreign counterparts. [read post]
23 Jan 2020, 5:00 am by Kevin Kaufman
Key Findings A broad-based financial transaction tax (FTT)­ in the United States would be a substantial revenue source. [read post]
25 Dec 2019, 9:06 pm by Series of Essays
In an all-payer system, all health care payers—the government, private insurers, and self-insured employer plans—pay similar prices. [read post]
6 Dec 2019, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
Democratic candidates and their progressive allies in the current cycle have put new scrutiny on lobbyists as well as on taking money from other special interest or corporate groups. [read post]
15 Oct 2019, 9:27 am by Joe Consumer
The department, which has a hand in just about every aspect of the industry, from doling out loans to subsidizing crop insurance, spends just 0.3 percent of its $144 billion budget helping farmers adapt to climate change, whether it’s identifying the unique risks each region faces or helping producers rethink their practices so they’re better able to withstand extreme rain and periods of drought. [read post]
11 Oct 2019, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
The campaign released a plan to “get corporate money out of politics,” a proposal that would eliminate big-dollar fundraising for all federal elections, enact a constitutional amendment to declare campaign contributions are not speech, and take aim at the Democratic National Convention. [read post]
22 May 2019, 3:56 am by Kevin LaCroix
Speaking recently at CoinDesk’s Consensus 2019 conference, Valerie Szczepanik, SEC Associate Director of the Division of Corporation Finance and Senior Advisor for Digital Assets and Innovation (often referred to as the SEC’s “Crypto-Czar”) expressed significant concern about IEOs. [read post]
26 Dec 2018, 9:30 pm by Series of Essays
A federal court recently ordered the U.S. [read post]
24 Dec 2018, 7:15 am by Cannabis Law Group
However, the farm bill removed hemp and other parts of the cannabis plant from the Controlled Substances Act, relegating products made with hemp seeds, oil and powder protein to “General Recognized as Safe (GRAS)” status, allowing farmers to purchase crop insurance, have eligibility for grants and loans and write off expenses for their business when their file their taxes – just as any other farmer would. [read post]
6 Dec 2018, 4:31 am by Cody Bassham
Perdue, 908 F.3d 1248 (10th Cir. 2018); This is an Administrative Procedure Act challenge to the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation’s implementation of the... [read post]
1 Dec 2018, 3:58 pm by Susan Schneider
Topics include agricultural exemptions from labor laws, the Migrant & Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act, and agriculture’s reliance on undocumented alien workers.Agricultural Cooperatives and Local Food Systems*1 credit – 7 weeks / (Mar. 6 – Apr. 26)Online asynchronous distance class, second half of the semesterLauren ManningThis course provides an introduction to the legal structure of a cooperative and examination of the recent use of the cooperative model in… [read post]
20 Nov 2018, 11:32 am by neli
 Ag-Analytics.org is a web application that integrates geographical, weather, and precision agriculture data collected by farm equipment; it used big data and predictive analytics techniques to help farmers assess different possible crop insurance strategies. [read post]