Inside Sources August 30, 2019 by Rhett Buttle The Business Roundtable, an influential group of CEOs of America’s most powerful corporations, made headlines recently by declaring they would no longer define the purpose of a corporation as solely focused on generating returns for shareholders. Instead, they declared that the purpose…
Tele-Town Hall Invitation: Small Business Owners and Health Care Costs September 12th @ 2:30ET You are invited to join Public Private Strategies for a lively online discussion on Thursday, September 12 at 2:30pm ET/11:30am PT. We’re talking about new research, supported by the Commonwealth Fund, conducted into how health care costs…
By Ashley D. Bell, Region IV Administrator, U.S. Small Business Administration Covering: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee September is National Preparedness Month. I view this as not a celebration, but as a critical reminder for entrepreneurs across the Southeast of how important it is to…
Tonight Jay Inslee, Governor of the State of Washington, ended his campaign to become the Democratic Presidential nominee. I had the opportunity to meet and talk with Governor Inslee back in June when he was in Columbia. He is an impressive politician with an outstanding record of success as an…
The IRS is reporting that taxpayers, individuals and the 90% of small business owners who pay any business profit on their personal taxes, gave Uncle Sam $93 billion more in 2018 compared to 2017. The reason—the 2017 tax law that gave huge tax cuts to corporations and the uber wealthy.…
The Washington Post is reporting that big businesses are pulling back on hiring due to uncertainty about the economy (see below). Still no mention by the national media that small businesses have already been shedding jobs for the last 3 months. From The Washington Post — U.S. businesses have begun…
Get your bumper sticker showing your support for protecting our democracy. The SC Small Business Chamber has asked our two Senators to use their influence with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to get bipartisan legislation passed to stop foreign interference in our elections. For a $12 contribution, we will send you a…
Palmetto Promise Institute July 31, 2019 By Oran P. Smith, Senior Fellow Two years ago today, Santee Cooper and SCE&G announced that they were abandoning construction of the V.C. Summer Nuclear Station units 2 and 3. The reactors were nowhere near complete though $9 billion had been spent. The financial…
Join us at the Rally to Protect our Coast as we celebrate the powerful momentum South Carolinians have built in 2019 against dirty and dangerous offshore drilling activities off our coast and learn how you can get involved in the fight to #ProtectOurCoast. Monday, August 5 from 6–8 p.m. (Food…
July 29, 2019 The Honorable Lindsey Graham 290 Russell Senate Office Building Washington, DC 20510 The Honorable Tim Scott 104 Hart Senate Office Building Washington, DC 20510 Re: Foreign Interference in U.S. Elections Dear Senators Graham and Scott, On behalf of the South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce Board…