Paul and the family

I talked with Paul Kimicata, owner of his family landscaping business, about business and family. Enjoy.

Here are links to some of the things we talked about:

Kimicata Brothers – design/build/maintenance & irrigation experts | Richard Caliguiri | Clarion University of Pennsylvania | Home - www.ussteel.com | Pollution control | Is It Really THAT Hard to Find Employees? | SAMHSA Drug-Free Workplaces: Drug Testing | Drug Testing at Your Small Business: 5 Legal Implications | Laws on Employee Drug Testing | Is It Legal to Drug Test My Employees? | Occupational Limited License (OLL) | Can Employers Require Employees to Have Driver's Licenses? - HR Daily Advisor | Toby Talbot / AP The Decline of the Driver's License | American Teens Are Driving Less, and the Reasons Are More Than Economic | Infographic: Americans Get Driver's Licenses Later in Life | Why many teens don't want to get a driver's license | Explore the Uber Platform | Uber United States | Get a Driver's License - DMV.pa.gov | Some Earning More Money On Unemployment Than While Working - What Is Their Incentive To Return To Work? | It pays to stay unemployed. That might be a good thing | For Many, $600 Jobless Benefit Makes It Hard To Return To Work | Many Americans Are Getting More Money From Unemployment Than They Were From Their Jobs | Low-wage workers make more on unemployment than normal income, Chicago economists say | Map: Here's where unemployment benefits pay more than lost jobs | Johnson's claim that some earn more on unemployment than working is on the money | ‘They get free money’: People will receive more stimulus payments and unemployment insurance. Why is there no accountability? | Stimulus Deal Q&A: Second Check, Unemployment Insurance and More | A reason for third stimulus checks: Unemployment benefits reach few | What jobless Americans should know about the $300 unemployment benefit | $300 Weekly Unemployment Benefits Included in Stimulus Bill | COVID Stimulus Checks to Come at the Unemployed's Expense | New Federal Unemployment Benefits On the Way | NextAdvisor with TIME | How to Hire When Unemployment Is at a Two-Decade Low | Economics The Downside of Low Unemployment | Five Steps to Follow When an Employee Quits | Confirmation of Verbal Resignation | Willful Misconduct | Greenius Online Training for Landscape Companies | Why Are Fewer Teens Working Summer Jobs? | Young people are less likely to hold summer jobs now—here's what they're doing instead | Fewer teens have summer jobs than in 2000 – and the jobs have changed | The Surprisingly Complex Reasons Why Teenagers Stopped Taking Summer Jobs | Why fewer kids work the kind of summer jobs than their parents used to have | Why many teens no longer even look for a summer job | 3 reasons the teen summer job is vanishing | Nuclear family | David Brooks: The Nuclear Family Was a Mistake | What Comes After the Nuclear Family? | U.S. has world’s highest rate of children living in single-parent households | Families: Single Parenting and Today's Family | Why single-parent homes affect children differently | https://fordhaminstitute.org/national/commentary/power-two-parent-home-not-myth | Does single parenting affect children? | HowStuffWorks | Children of Single Mothers: How Do They Really Fare? | Married and Single Parents Spending More Time With Children, Study Finds (Published 2006) | Do Parents Spend Enough Time With Their Children? – Population Reference Bureau | Making time for kids? Study says quality trumps quantity. | Single parents: positive single parenting | Truancy Laws Unfairly Attack Poor Children and Parents | Truancy bulletin | The Real Root Causes of Violent Crime: The Breakdown of Marriage, Family, and Community | The Pittsburgh Promise | 2020 Report to Community — The Pittsburgh Promise | Without new funding sources, the Pittsburgh Promise scholarship faces an uncertain future | Pittsburgh Promise looks to increase scholarship rates -- 'Coaches' to work inside Perry, Milliones, Carrick | Fulfilling The Pittsburgh Promise®: Early Progress of Pittsburgh's Postsecondary Scholarship Program | RAND | Truancy: The Extent of the Problem | TRUANCY AND SCHOOL ATTENDANCE IN PENNSYLVANIA | How Parents Can Help Children Who Struggle with Homework | How to Help: Monitor Assignments -- Helping Your Child With Homework | How does a college degree improve graduates' employment and earnings potential? | Average Salary by Education Level: Value of a College Degree | Does a Degree Increase Your Salary? | Research Summary: Education and Lifetime Earnings | EJ1018800 - Assessment of Risk Factors for Truancy of Children in Grades K-12 Using Survival Analysis, Journal of At-Risk Issues, 2013 | Influence of Socio-economic Status on Truancy among Secondary School Students | Mapping inequalities in school attendance: The relationship between dimensions of socioeconomic status and forms of school absence | Family Socioeconomic Status, Peers, and The Path to College | The graduation gap and socioeconomic status: Using stereotype threat to explain graduation rates | The Income Gaps in Higher Education Enrollment and Completion | Addressing the College Completion Gap Among Low-Income Students | Father Absence Statistics | Report marks growing educational disadvantage for children of single-parent families | Teens From Single-Parent Families Leave School Earlier | Are Fatherless Children at A Higher Risk to Commit Crimes? | DeBruin Law | The Real, Complex Connection Between Single-Parent Families and Crime | Poverty, Dropouts, Pregnancy, Suicide: What The Numbers Say About Fatherless Kids | Family Structure and Adolescent Drug Use: An Exploration of Single-Parent Families | The Effects of Father Absence and Father Alternatives on Female and Male Rates of Violence | Study: Teen boys more likely to carry gun if parents disengaged | Guns in the Home | Rep. John Duncan Jr. says 90 percent of felons grew up in fatherless households | Children in single-parent families by race in the United States | Single Mothers Are Surging Into the Work Force (Published 2019) | New Data Shows Single Moms Are Dominating The Work Force | Employment Characteristics of Families Summary | Single Mothers Still a Small Fraction of the US Labor Force – Population Reference Bureau | The Choices Working Mothers Make | Landforce, land stewardship + workforce development, PittsburghIt’s Hard For People With Criminal Records To Get A Job–This New Job Site Can Help | Out of Trouble, but Criminal Records Keep Men Out of Work (Published 2015) | How to Find a Job With a Criminal Background | Perspective | You’re out of prison. Now you have to get your driver’s license back. | Women's labor force participation rate hit 33-year low in January 2021 | US unemployment: Job losses in December 2020 all from women. Is America giving up on working women? | Women Are Leaving the Labor Force in Record Numbers | COVID-19 and gender equality: Countering the regressive effects | Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) Loan Forgiveness | Landscaping industry numbers look hopeful amid COVID-19 | Landscaping Companies Are Seeing Impact from COVID-19 Pandemic | Updates on COVID-19 and the landscaping industry | 1. How landscape companies are handling COVID-19 concerns | PLNA Clarification on Governor's Statewide Shutdown | Rep. Summer Lee | Home Page | Rep. Summer Lee | Constituent Services | Who runs for office? A profile of the 2%