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SBAF Co-Chair to Testify Before Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs’ Subcommittee on Economic Policy on Importance of Affordable Childcare to Small Business 

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contact: Conan Knollconan@emccommunications.com (831) 524-6764 SBAF Co-Chair to Testify Before Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs’ Subcommittee on Economic Policy on Importance of Affordable Childcare to Small Business  Today, Small Business for America Co-Chair Walt Rowen will testify before the Senate’s Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs’ Subcommittee on Economic […]

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Small Business Group: Small business owners support measures to ensure corporations pay their fair share of taxes, level playing field for Main Street Entrepreneurs

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contact:Conan Knollconan@emccommunications.com(831) 524-6764 Small Business Group: Small business owners support measures to ensure corporations pay their fair share of taxes, level playing field for Main Street Entrepreneurs Statement by Small Business For America’s Future Co-Chair Anne Zimmerman urging lawmakers to level the playing field for small businesses on Tax Day Washington,

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Small Business Group: EXIM’s Make More in America initiative is a welcome and innovative approach to helping small business manufacturing

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contact:Conan Knollconan@emccommunications.com(831) 524-6764 Small Business Group: EXIM’s Make More in America initiative is a welcome and innovative approach to helping small business manufacturing Statement by Small Business for America’s Future Co-Chair Walt Rowen, CEO of Susquehanna Glass Co. in Pennsylvania, about the EXIM bank making financing available to domestic businesses working on export-oriented

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Higher inflation deflates optimism among small business owners, an NFIB study shows

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Post and Courier April 14, 2022 Higher inflation deflates optimism among small business owners, an NFIB study shows By Jodi Shafto jshafto@postandcourier.com The number of small businesses that say inflation is their single most crucial problem is at 31 percent, the biggest share since the first quarter of 1981 — many are having to raise

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SBAF’s Founding Co-Chair Frank Knapp Jr. Becomes Policy & Outreach Advisor; Small Business Council Member Walt Rowen Becomes Co-Chair

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Conan Knoll conan@emccommunications.com (831) 524-6764 Founding Small Business for America’s Future Co-chair Frank Knapp Jr. to take active role in serving the organization as policy and outreach advisor and long-time small business owner and advocate Walt Rowen to become co-chair Washington, D.C., April 4, 2022— Small Business for America’s Future (SBAF), one

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Small Business Group: House vote to cap insulin costs a needed step in reducing price of life-saving medicine and small business healthcare costs

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contact: Conan Knoll conan@emccommunications.com (831) 524-6764 Statement by Small Business for America’s Future Co-Chair Anne Zimmerman on the House’s passage of legislation capping the cost of insulin Washington, D.C., March 31, 2022—The House of Representatives passage today of legislation capping the exorbitant cost of insulin is promising progress in reining the

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Why are so many South Carolinians unemployed as job openings rise? Task force aims to find answer

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WIS-TV March 25, 2022 Watch Video By Mary Green COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) – The number of open jobs across South Carolina totals to six figures, tens of thousands more than the number of vacancies before the pandemic. But new data released Friday reveals slightly over half the number of South Carolinians who are old enough and eligible to

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Second-chance program gives former inmates, Lewis Tree Service shots at success

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Florence Morning News March 23, 2022 FLORENCE – A unique public-private workforce effort neared a milestone Tuesday as participants in the inaugural Energy Industry Second Chance Pilot Program wrapped up on-the-job training and prepared to re-enter the workforce fulltime. The program is designed to keep former inmates from returning to jail by removing barriers to

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Pilot program offers careers for convicted felons in South Carolina

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WPDE ABC 15 March 22, 2022 Pilot program offers careers for convicted felons in South Carolina by Tonya Brown PEE DEE, S.C. (WPDE) — The ‘Energy Industry Second Chance Pilot Program’ is an initiative designed to help people who were incarcerated to gainful employment or reentry into the workforce while helping to grow the energy

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‘SBDC Day’ Celebration Set for March 16, 2022

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SC SBDC March 14, 2022 ‘SBDC Day’ Celebration Set for March 16, 2022 South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster Issues Proclamation Recognizing the Day and the SC SBDC’s Contributions to a Robust South Carolina Economy Contact: Susan Sturgeon Marketing Manager SC Small Business Development Centers 803.576.8080 susan.sturgeon@moore.sc.edu South Carolina SBDC Network Headquarters (Columbia, SC) – In honor of

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