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  2. Family Businesses Making a Comeback - AOL

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    Many people say it's tough to work with family members, but a lot of people are doing it effectively and profitably. An important factor in the recovery seems to be coming from family-owned ...

  3. Family business - Wikipedia

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    The "Global Family Business Index" [5] comprises the largest 500 family firms around the globe. In this index—published for a first time in 2015 by Center for Family Business University of St. Gallen and EY—for a privately held firm, a firm is classified as a family firm in case a family controls more than 50% of the voting rights. For a ...

  4. Escalation of commitment - Wikipedia

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    Organizations that are family businesses are especially prone to escalation of commitment due to the added level of going through the family structure in addition to the business structure, allowing for further conflicts between the two. [14] Business reputation, customer and share loss, and financial loss become risks.

  5. Keating–Owen Act - Wikipedia

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    The Keating–Owen Child Labor Act of 1916, also known as Wick's Bill, was a short-lived statute enacted by the U.S. Congress which sought to reduce child labor.It did so by prohibiting the sale in interstate commerce of goods produced by factories that employed children under 14, mines that employed children younger than 16, and any facility where children under 14 worked after 7:00 p.m. or ...

  6. More companies offer on-site child care. Parents love the ...

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    KinderCare, a large child care operator with locations nationally, partners with more than 600 businesses and organizations to provide employee-sponsored child care, up from 400 in 2019, says Dan ...

  7. Why Small Businesses Are Important to Our Economy and ... - AOL

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    Here’s why keeping the doors at a small business open matters for the U.S. economy and local communities. ... This smart humidifier helps me sleep better in the dry winter months. See all deals ...

  8. Family economics - Wikipedia

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    Household work benefiting the spouse more than the individual could include cooking or laundry as well as carework for spouses able to do the work themselves. [38] According to some neoclassical theories, the division of labor between household and market work is related to the utility function of the individuals within the family. In case a ...

  9. Child labor in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Because of these low productivity levels, families couldn't really strike it rich by putting their children to work. When viewed as an investment, children had a strikingly negative rate of return because the costs of raising them generally exceeded the value of the work they performed. [13] From 1910 to 1920, more than 60 percent of child ...