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South Carolina Businesses and Units of Government Already Receiving Funds From the Affordable Care Act to Make Health Insurance More Affordable

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Rising health care costs have made it difficult for employers to provide quality, affordable health insurance for workers and retirees while also remaining competitive in the global marketplace. The percentage of large firms providing workers with retiree health coverage has dropped from 66 percent in 1988 to 29 percent in 2009.1 Health insurance premiums for older […]

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Website touts SC small businesses

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SAVANNAH, GA (WTOC) – South Carolina’s Small Business Chamber of Commerce has a website that focuses on buying local. BuySC.org aims to get neighbors to support and buy from local businesses. Business owners post discounts and bargains on the site on items that consumers many not find at big nationwide retailers. “Advertising is a big struggle. We don’t

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IRS Releases Form to Help Small Businesses Claim New Health Care Tax Credit

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WASHINGTON –– The Internal Revenue Service today released a draft version of the form that small businesses and tax-exempt organizations will use to calculate the small business health care tax credit when they file income tax returns next year. The IRS also announced how eligible tax-exempt organizations –– which do not generally file income tax

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Special Report: Hope for Affordable Health Insurance

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THE S.C. SMALL BUSINESS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE 1717 Gervais Street, Columbia, SC  29201  (803) 252-5733  www.scsbc.org Yesterday’s historic vote in the U.S. House for health insurance reform sets the country on the path toward affordable health insurance for small businesses.  The victory in the House and the expected successful vote in the U.S. Senate give

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Public Service Commission Reform

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When the Small Business Chamber intervened this past year in SCE&G’s electricity rate hike request, it was painfully obvious that the company had way too much influence with the PSC staff and Commissioners. The Consumer Advocate intervened primarily to question the overall rate hike request but not one once of effort for analyzing or protesting

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Legislative Update: Technical College Tuition Receives $33 Million

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The Senate Finance Committee voted last week to give $33 million in lottery money to technical college tuition assistance. We had hoped to obtain the same $34 million budget for this important program that we had this year. Thank you for all your help in making this effort a success. Remember that we started this

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Action Alert!!! Education Reform to Help Workforce Development

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-30% of our children drop out of school by the 10th grade. -Only 32% of our high school graduates will go to technical college even though 65% of our jobs require such training. -28% of high school graduates will go on to a 4-year university and find that only 20% of our jobs require such degrees. -The

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Action Alert!!! Stop Unfair Sales Tax Exemption

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The South Carolina House is considering giving a sales tax exemption to Amazon if the company builds a new distribution center in Lexington County.  The SCSBCC opposes the tax exemption because it would create an uneven playing field for small businesses competing with Amazon.  Read the SCSBCC letter to House members. A new retail organization, SC Alliance for

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Expansion of this vital program wouldn’t equate to government-run health care

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By Sue Berkowitz and Frank Knapp Jr., Spartanburg Herald Journal November 25, 2007 The S.C. General Assembly voted this year to expand the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) to provide coverage to children in families with incomes between 150 percent and 200 percent of poverty. With this increase from the previous income limit of

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Small Business Bulletin: 5th Anniversary Special Edition

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The following issues are addressed in this Special 5th Anniversary Edition of our newsletter.   HISTORICAL REFLECTIONS: Small Business Chamber Celebrates 5th Anniversary This Month Message From Tim Wilkes, Chairman Message From Frank Knapp, President   LEGISLATIVE & ISSUE UPDATE: Making Job Tax Credits Available For Small Businesses Tort Reform Moves Forward Affordable Health Care

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