Widmeyer client Public Affairs Council conducted its first-ever Public Affairs Pulse survey to go beyond the headlines and ask what the public really thinks of business and standard business practices. The answers are surprising, and generated significant interest from media outlets [...]
As Congressional leaders debate the debt-ceiling limit, Widmeyer worked to secure the lead interview segment for Kristie Arslan of the National Association for the Self-Employed (NASE) on Sunday, July 10th’s MSNBC’s “Your Business“. “Your Business” is MSNBC’s premiere small business show. She argued that the self-employed community – which represents 78 percent of the small business [...]
Facing little to no awareness of the self-employed business demographic and its dominance in our economy among media and policymakers, NASE enlisted Widmeyer Communications to help raise the profile of its policy agenda in the Washington community.
After Senate passage of the Small Business Jobs Act, Widmeyer secured an op-ed in Roll Call for the National Association for the Self-Employed (NASE) timed to coincide with the legislation returning to the House. Kristie Arslan of NASE urged the House to take the quick and decisive action needed get the measure to the President’s [...]
Widmeyer Communications secured an appearance for Kristie Arslan of the National Association for the Self-Employed (NASE) on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal during the Labor Day weekend. Arslan took advantage of Labor Day to discuss the important contributions of our nation’s self-employed and micro-businesses to our economy. She also took questions from callers about a variety of [...]
Widmeyer facilitated a meeting between the Association of American Publishers and the Atlanta Journal Constitution to highlight the launch of the AccessText Network, which helps students with disabilities get the textbook materials they need for college. The meeting included a demonstration of the latest laptop screen-reading technology being utilized by students with disabilities.
Marianne Williamson wrote: “[y]our playing small doesn’t serve the world.” This quote should be the yardstick colleges and universities use to measure their responses to hits on their short-term and long-term wellbeing. It is rare to find an institution that would sit back and allow a lawsuit to go unchallenged in the court of law, [...]
Aristotle is known to have said: “Happiness is the meaning and purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.” If only the essence of happiness was easy to bottle! Unfortunately, the idea of happiness and how it relates to well-being is not easily defined, instead riddled with multiple components and connections, to [...]
