FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 3, 2019 Contact: Conan Knoll conan@emcstrategies.com (831) 524-6764 Statement by Businesses for Responsible Tax Reform Co-chair Frank Knapp, Jr. on a recent NFIB survey and actual small business sentiment about the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act Washington, D.C., October 3, 2019—House Ways and Means Committee Ranking…
Recent radio interviews on Protect Democracy USA and the Enhance Entrepreneurship for the 21st Century Act
On September 13th on WVOC in Columbia, SC, Frank Knapp talks about the Protect Democracy USA campaign to raise the voice of small businesses demanding that Congress and the President take immediate action to address foreign interference in the nation’s elections. Listen here. On September 25th on WRHI in Rock…
Opinion: What to Make of August Job Numbers?
InsideSources, September 10, 2019 The Post-Journal (Jamestown, NY), September 14, 2019 By Frank Knapp Jr. The Labor Department has told us that that 130,000 new jobs were created in August. However, around 25,000 were temporary census workers hired by the federal government. That puts the August total for new private-sector…
Opinion: New Corporate Purpose Equals New Opportunity
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…
Report: CEO pay increases 1,000% over past 40 years
MultiBriefs August 23, 2019 By Seth Sandronsky What can small businesses make of booming CEO pay? First, we look at the numbers. Lawrence Mishel and Julia Wolfe of the Washington, D.C.-based Economic Policy Institute dove deep into the data on compensation trends in the U.S. over the past 40 years.…
Business Campaign Launched to Protect Democracy, a patriotic call-to-arms that small businesses are now joining in a unified voice
PRESS RELEASE Date: August 21, 2019 From: South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce Subject: Business Campaign Launched to Protect Democracy Contact: Frank Knapp, President/CEO, 803-252-5733 (w), 803-600-6874 (c), fknapp@scsbc.org Columbia, SC—The South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce (SCSBCC) today launched “Protect Democracy USA”, a campaign to raise the…
How bad did America’s taxpayers get screwed by the 2017 tax law?
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.…
National media still doesn’t focus on small business job losses
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…
Opinion: Very Small Businesses Shed 105,000 Jobs Over the Past 3 Months. What’s Going On?
Morning Consult August 13, 2019 By Frank Knapp Jr While the Department of Labor has reported job increases over the past three months, businesses with fewer than 20 employees have lost jobs each of those same months according to the ADP National Employment Report. A total of 105,000 jobs have…
Small businesses nationally shed 105,000 jobs in past 3 months
Hartsville Messenger August 5, 2019 From staff reports COLUMBIA, S.C. – The Department of Labor released its national jobs report last week indicating that the nation added 164,000 jobs in July. The ADP National Employment Report also released a report saying that 156,000 new jobs were added last month. However,…