For Immediate Release September 24, 2019 Earlier this year, Klobuchar and Scott launched the bipartisan Senate Entrepreneurship Caucus to address the most pressing policy issues facing entrepreneurs and today hosted a Women’s Entrepreneurship Roundtable to encourage new business founders WASHINGTON—Today, Senate Entrepreneurship Caucus Co-Chairs Senators Tim Scott (R-SC) and Amy…
Opinion: Stop Santee Cooper’s bad management
Florence Morning News September 13, 2019 By Frank Knapp Jr. Guest Columnist Santee Santee Cooper’s recent fight with S.C. Sen. Hugh K. Leatherman Sr., other legislative leaders and the S.C. Department of Administration regarding the public utility’s “secret negotiations” with two private utilities has come to an end. Under the…
Poll: Eager for Action on Soaring Health Care Costs, Small Business Owners Seek Market and Policy Solutions
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 9/10/2019 Washington, D.C – A new national poll of 500 small- and medium-sized businesses shows health care costs are the biggest concern for employers and many have taken steps to lower those costs, at times by passing them on to employees through higher premiums or…
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…
Kamala Harris Onboard with Day One Action Plan on Offshore Drilling. Litmus test campaign picking up speed.
PRESS RELEASE Date: September 5, 2019 From: South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce Subject: Kamala Harris Onboard with Day One Action Plan on Offshore Drilling Contact: Frank Knapp, President/CEO, 803-252-5733 (w), 803-600-6874 (c), fknapp@scsbc.org Columbia, SC—With Hurricane Dorian demonstrating the destructive fury awaiting any oil drilling rigs that the…
Thanks Booker campaign
A big THANK YOU to the Cory Booker campaign for including comments from the SC Small Business Chamber in its press release today (see below). FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 4, 2019 Cory Booker Releases Historic Climate and Environmental Justice Plan That Would Directly Impact South Carolina Columbia, SC — Today, Cory…
Sanders Calls for Day One Action Plan on Offshore Drilling. Three other candidates fall just short of litmus test.
PRESS RELEASE Date: September 4, 2019 From: South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce Subject: Sanders Calls For Day One Action Plan on Offshore Drilling Contact: Frank Knapp, President/CEO, 803-252-5733 (w), 803-600-6874 (c), fknapp@scsbc.org Columbia, SC—Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has recently released an extensive plan to move the nation…
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…
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…