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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Great news! Yesterday Senator Tim Scott’s (R-SC) bill, Enhancing Entrepreneurship for the 21st Century Act, passed out of the Senate Commerce Committee with a unanimous vote.
Small business owners are invited to attend a luncheon in Greenville, SC, for a discussion on Medicare for All and what it would mean for small businesses and small business owners of South Carolina. While the South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce does not endorse candidates and does not…
Health insurance enrollment is now open for small business owners and their employees through the ACA Marketplace. If your business doesn’t offer health insurance to employees, it is time to make sure they have the coverage that they need to be healthy and productive. This enrollment window closes December 15th.…