Staff Writer
Maureen Milliken
Maureen Milliken is a journalist and editor with a concentration on business-related news, and more than three decades experience. She is also a published author, including the nonfiction The Afterlife Survey (Adams Media, 2011) and mystery novels Cold Hard News (2015, S&H Publishing), No News is Bad News (2016, S&H Publishing) and Bad News Travels Fast (2018, S&H Publishing). She also independently published "Get it Right: A Cranky Editor's Tips for Grammar, Usage and Punction" (Amazon, 2013).
The number of people losing their jobs because of the COVID-19 pandemic continues to skyrocket at a record pace. Part of that number are those who are on “temporary layoff,”…
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Buying a home in Florida can be challenging. Supply is tight, and demand and prices are on the rise. If you’re a first-time Florida homebuyer, navigating the process, particularly the…
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Collecting, calculating, reporting and paying sales tax continues to be one of the most confusing — and sometimes annoying — aspects of running a small business. The issue has only become…
Your company sent everyone home when the pandemic began last March and now that is your workplace so you’re probably wondering if that means you’re eligible for some serious tax…
Americans were already struggling with medical debt before the COVID-19 pandemic, and, largely because of record-setting unemployment in the last six months, the issue is expected to get worse. About…
Household debt in the U.S. was a record $14.20 trillion for the first quarter of 2020, which seems like a lot of debt and it is. If you stacked that…
As the COVID-19 crisis drags on and unemployment spikes to unprecedented levels in the U.S., individual debt burdens can feel more overwhelming than ever. On top of it, as many…
With a stunning 36.5 million and counting Americans out of work because of the COVID-19 pandemic, there are a lot of people scrambling to pay their bills until they have…
Americans suddenly out of work because of COVID-19 are filing for unemployment in unprecedented numbers, but a bright spot on the employment front is that some businesses are hiring, both…