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A Plumbing Contractor’s Guide to Insurance Coverage

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In this respect, general liability insurance or workers’ compensation could help cover those costs if an incident should occur. . Construction zones are busy areas where workers can get hurt. Workers’ compensation insurance should be in place to help defray the costs of employee medical treatments. Worker injury.

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Imbabura province, Ecuador: Where to find the spectacled bears of South America

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In the past, local farmers would often shoot bears when they ate their crops; now Vasquez compensates them using donations from tourists and environmental organisations. A farmer by trade, he started this project to observe and protect the region’s bears, which he says have been visiting the valley for the last 10 years.

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Open Borders

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They’ve become proponents of a regional tech zone spanning the border; they’ve even got a name for it: the Cascadia Innovation Corridor (a name derived from the Cascade mountain range that cuts through the U.S.-Canada Canada border). But the project’s price tag—an estimated $30 billion—has kept it on the drawing board.

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Rhode Island Incentives and Workforce Development Guide

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Taxable RIIFC Bonds: RIIFC offers taxable bonds for businesses that want to branch out into a commercial enterprise, including building tourist-travel facilities. The loan covers up to 90% on real estate, 80% of machinery and equipment, and 75% of tourist-travel recreation projects. Loan and Bond Guarantees.

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State by State Incentives Guide

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Enterprise Zone Credit or Exemption: The Alabama Enterprise Zone Act (Act. The program provides state and local tax incentives and non-tax incentives to businesses and industries located within Alabama’s Enterprise Zones. May not have closed or reduced employment elsewhere in Alabama in order to expand into an enterprise zone.

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STATE INCENTIVES GUIDE

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ENTERPRISE ZONE CREDIT: To stimulate growth in depressed areas of the state, Alabama offers certain tax credit incentives to business that locate or expand within a designated enterprise zone. ENTERPRISE ZONES: Businesses located within the boundaries of an EZ are eligible for tax credits. LAMBRA zones are a companion to EZs.

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Shovel-Ready Sites: Ready To Hit The Ground Running

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Iowa’s costs for equipment rental, construction, payroll, workers’ compensation and utilities are all below the national average. As the epicenter for art, wine and music in West Texas, more than six million visitors travel to Lubbock and spend a combined $840 million annually.

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