Glenn Hamer

I had the opportunity this week to speak before the Swedish-American Chambers of Commerce about the state of the Arizona economy and what’s happening in policymaking circles. Later in my presentation I touched on immigration.  To get a sense of how much the attendees knew about the issue, I asked how many of the people […]

Employees should be able to decide whether they want to support an employer’s or union’s political agenda. On that, the business community is in agreement. Union members’ rights should be protected by ensuring that union funds used for operational expenses are segregated from the funds used for political purposes, while seeing to it that union

[Posted By: Katie Whitchurch, Director of Events] On Thursday, March 24th we are very excited to host a special seminar on IBM Corporation’s outstanding resource for small and medium sized businesses, the SME Toolkit. This event will take place at the ASU SkySong campus beginning at 9:00 a.m. and will allow participants the opportunity to

The Great Recession has taken its toll on Arizona’s Unemployment Insurance Fund. In fact, the demands placed on the fund have been so great due to high job losses that the fund last year became insolvent. The UI system is one in which state and federal government, under the Federal Unemployment Tax Act (FUTA), come