Assault is a common crime that happens in the US. This is backed by the FBI's 2025 crime statistics that show one aggravated assault happens about every 38.8 seconds in the U.S. Aggravated assault is the FBI's label for attacks involving a serious injury or a weapon. Simple assaults, which involve no serious injury and no weapon, are reported in a separate category. State law also tends to split assault into lesser and more serious charges, so the charge listed at arrest can change after the facts are reviewed. Knowing which charge applies makes the rest of the process easier to follow.
In fiscal year 2024, the US Department of Health and Human Services’ Child Support Enforcement program served 12.2 million children and collected $29.5 billion in child support. Families received 97 percent of the recovered amount. The other 3 percent was used to reimburse public assistance programs. With the constant changes and development of laws, learning new child support laws is important so that they can be applied in the way that best serves the children.
In this edition of Business Spotlight Jim interviews healthcare insurance expert Dwight Dale from Florida Blue, who helps to navigate the maze of healthcare reform myths and truths - not an easy task these days, and how Florida Blue has successfully created unique modern methods to make the Affordable Care Act transition as smooth as possible for their customers.
So you need to raise your prices! Don't charge too much, but don;t charge too little - easy to say, but much harder to do; get it right and you'll make money, but get it wrong and your business could fail. Jim takes you through three simple exercises to reduce your risk and to help you get the price point that you deserve! “That which costs little is less valued.” ― Miguel de Cervantese
Learn quick ways to access, develop, and test your next idea for your new business, product or start-up idea without spending a fortune. Here are quick and easy tips to ways to identify your target, engage them and increase your sales reach - and know what you are talking about before you spend your hard earned cash on a marketing company's services!
Lifestyle entrepreneur and business branding strategist and Jim McKenzie shares practical and simple to follow steps that an entrepreneur can use to help revive sagging sales by working on the connections that you already have but which you have forgotten! Don't let those old sales leads suffer an untimely death and leave your money on the table!
In this episode social entrepreneur Jim McKenzie shares the story about how he realized that after 30 years as an entrepreneur he realized that he was an excellent business marketer, and how had been inspired in business by the late David Bowie.
A short trip can throw off a rehabilitation routine. A patient may leave equipment behind, spend hours in transit, or miss an appointment. Remote therapeutic monitoring for physical therapy lets the clinician review the activities an enrolled patient reports and the patient’s response to the assigned program. It does not expand the clinician’s authority across state lines, replace a clinical reassessment, confirm correct exercise technique, or provide emergency supervision. Travel also does not make an activity billable on its own.