70% of employers have experience caring for a loved one and/or have an employee who has been a family caregiver. That’s why Public Private Strategies partnered with AARP to launch the Small Business Caregiving Guide, a new, free online resource guide that helps small business owners create a caregiving-friendly workplace.…
Business Campaign for Election Security Re-branded
PRESS RELEASE Date: December 3, 2019 From: Business 4 Protecting The Election (formerly Protect Democracy USA) Subject: Business Campaign for Election Security Re-branded Contact: Frank Knapp, 803-252-5733 (w), 803-600-6874 (c), ProtectElection@gmail.com “Protect Democracy USA, the business campaign launched this past August calling on Congress to pass legislation critically needed to…
Time is running out for employees to get affordable health insurance
Small business owners who do not offer group health insurance (which is most small businesses) need to quickly help their workers obtain affordable health insurance through the Federal Marketplace. There is no cost to the employer. The door shuts December 15th for getting this quality health insurance with very affordable…
Local businesses prepare for Small Business Saturday
WIS-TV November 29, 2019 By Emily Wakeman COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) – You may be recovering from a day spent at the department stores taking advantage of all of the Black Friday deals, but this week’s kickoff of the holiday shopping season continues tomorrow with Small Business Saturday. It’s a day…
Republican Fervor Ebbs for Offshore Drilling
The Wall Street Journal November 29, 2019 Shift in sentiment waylays Trump administration push for oil drilling off Southeast coast By Timothy Puko and Andrew Duehren CHARLESTON, S.C.—The wake from Chip Campsen’s fishing boat has rippled all the way from the South Carolina coast to the White House. Mr. Campsen…
Solar, wind and hydro power could soon surpass coal
CNN Business November 26, 2019 By Matt Egan, CNN Business Coal, long the king of America’s electric grid, will soon get toppled by renewable energy. Solar and wind power are growing so rapidly that for the first time ever, the United States will likely get more power in 2021 from…
Does a jump in personal loans signal economic trouble ahead?
MultiBriefs November 25, 2019 By Seth Sandronsky As night follows day, economic expansions end in recessions. Consumer debt is a part of each chapter. On that note, the consumer credit agencies — Equifax, Experian and TransUnion — are reporting a rise in personal loans over recent months. Is this a…
Letter: Cunningham’s vote
Charleston Post and Courier November 24, 2019 Regardless of the party affiliation Joe Cunningham chose prior to his election to Congress, he has represented the best interests of his district in stellar fashion. With each vote he has cast and each piece of legislation he has sponsored, Rep. Cunningham has…
Action Alert!! The healthcare of 326,000 South Carolinians is in jeopardy
With Congress and President Trump agreeing to give themselves until December 20th to successfully address the 2019-2020 federal budget, the nation’s community health centers are very concerned. It is not the first time community health centers, the source of care for 29 million uninsured and underinsured Americans, have faced an…
National parks and offshore oil
In June of 2017, then Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke told the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee that maintenance and repair revenues for our national parks was woefully inadequate. Zinke blamed a significant drop in federal royalty revenue from offshore oil drilling as the reason. These revenues…