This past Friday President Obama challenged business and industry to hire and train 100,000 unemployed veterans or their spouses before 2014. The President pointed out that there are one million unemployed veterans today with a 13.3% jobless rate for post 9/11 veterans. To move the challenge along, the President has proposed the following tax credits: […]
Two U.S. House Committees held a joint hearing yesterday on a potential executive order from the Obama Administration that will try to make sure government contracts are not being awarded because of campaign contributions. This is a seriously important issue for every small business that would like to provide goods or services to the Federal
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One thing that we all should agree on regardless of our political differences is that the U.S. Supreme Court Justices should be above partisan politics and absolutely should have no conflict of interest on any rulings they make. Below is a letter we are sending today to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder today in regard
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It’s Wednesday evening and I’m sitting in a D.C. hotel room after an interesting day. I was asked to join Senator Jeff Merkley of Oregon in a press teleconference call today on the tax cut issue eating up Washington. As readers of this blog already know, the Small Business Chamber is opposing the extension of tax cuts
If you, like everyone else, are tired of all the negative political ads, take solace in the fact that they’ll be gone next Wednesday. But unfortunately, what will stay with us is an outright attack on our democracy. Our “government of the people, by the people and for the people,” thanks to the Citizens United
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Dorfman (left) in action This morning I joined Congressman Jim Himes (D-CT) and Margot Dorfman, CEO of the U.S. Women’s Chamber of Commerce, in a press teleconference call on why passing Wall Street Reform is important to small businesses. You can read my prepared statement below and hear the entire press conference by clicking here.
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Where was that headline 11 days ago? On June 10th, the S.C. Department of Insurance put out a media advisory saying that its Director, Scott Richardson, had approved an overall 9.8% decrease in worker’s compensation insurance rates (technically the cut was to something called “Loss Costs in the Voluntary Market” but I don’t want you
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Last week the crisis of far too few small business loans being made seemed to be getting some needed attention. The Federal Reserve chairman, Ben Bernanke, is reported by the New York Times to have said Thursday “that banks needed to increase lending to small businesses to reduce unemployment and help the economic recover.” Last
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