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Suazo Business Centerâs ELLA program partners to bring DreamBuilder program to Utah
Suazo Business Center, in a partnership with the Mexican Consulate of Salt Lake City, Arizona Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, and ASUâs Thunderbird School of Global Management, is excited to incorporate DreamBuilder into its ELLA⢠Womenâs Program, to help women convert dreams into enterprises that enrich families, communities, and nations.
DreamBuilder is an entrepreneurship training program that was started by Freeport-McMoRan, in a partnership with the Thunderbird School of Global Management to create an effective curriculum that teaches women the fundamentals of owning their own business. The program consists of courses covering the foundational business knowledge needed to start and grow small businesses and includes courses including marketing, pricing, and bookkeeping. The program utilizes games, exercises, testimonials from successful entrepreneurs, and video storytelling to make the learning fun and engaging. (Read More)
HELP committee approves legislation with Romney measures to improve pandemic preparedness & response
The Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee today voted to approve the bipartisan Prepare for and Respond to Existing Viruses, Emerging New Threats, and Pandemics Act (PREVENT Pandemics Act) with measures offered by U.S. Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT) to improve our domestic manufacturing surge capacity and capabilities for biodefense and pandemic preparedness and response and require an inventory of the public health preparedness, response, and recovery data systems and an analysis of the duplication, fragmentation, and overlap of these programs. The PREVENT Pandemics Act passed out of the HELP Committee by a vote of 20-2.
âI thank the Chair and Ranking Member for including my bill to allow for new capabilities for domestic surge manufacturing so that medical countermeasures, from tests and personal protective equipment, to vaccines and therapeutics, can be rapidly manufactured to respond to public health emergencies,â Senator Romney said. âIt will help ensure that we are better prepared in a future public health emergency. (Read More)
Utah Taxpayers Association releases 2022 Legislative Scorecard and Friend of the Taxpayer award winners
The Utah Taxpayers Association has released its 2022 Legislative Scorecard and announces its âFriend of the Taxpayerâ award winners. This year, the Associationâs annual scorecard ranked Utahâs 104 legislators on 15 crucial taxpayer related bills from the 2022 legislative session. The bills that were rated covered key taxpayer issues such as cutting taxes, preventing tax increases, promoting equity in Utahâs tax code and ensuring economic success in the state for years to come.
Legislators voting with the Associationâs position 90% of the time earn the distinction of âFriend of the Taxpayer.â 26 House members and 21 senators earned the honor for this year, a significant increase from the prior year. (Read More)
Small business owners across U.S. urge Congress to modernize SBA programs to reflect todayâs economy
The Bipartisan Policy Center and Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses Voices, in partnership with small business owners across the country,today released a new report â From Pandemic to Prosperity: Bipartisan Solutions to Support Todayâs Small Businesses. The new report urges Congress to reauthorize the Small Business Administration (SBA) for the first time in over two decades, allowing programs supporting small businesses to be reimagined to reflect the realities of todayâs economy. (Read More)
Romney, colleagues tell President Biden: An Iran agreement without broad congressional support will not survive
Forty-nine Republican senators, including Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT), today in a joint statement told the Biden Administration they will not support the revived Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) with Iran, which, according to public reports, will weaken sanctions and lessen restrictions on Iranâs nuclear program. (Read More)
Congressman Blake Mooreâs Modernizing Access to our Public Land Act passes the House of Representatives
Today, in a bipartisan vote of 414 to 9, the House of Representatives passed the Modernizing Access to our Public Land (MAPLand) Act. Congressman Moore was joined by Representatives Russ Fulcher (R-ID), Joe Neguse (D-CO), and Kim Schrier (D-WA) in introducing this legislation.
The MAPLand Act will direct federal land management agencies to digitize and standardize mapping records. This will allow hunters, hikers, bikers, anglers, and millions of other federal land users to access essential information about public lands as well as help federal land management agencies identify public lands with limited or nonexistent public access points and take proactive steps to open them to the public. (Read More)
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