70% of employers have experience caring for a loved one and/or have an employee who has been a family caregiver. That’s why Public Private Strategies partnered with AARP to launch the Small Business Caregiving Guide, a new, free online resource guide that helps small business owners create a caregiving-friendly workplace.…
Local businesses prepare for Small Business Saturday
WIS-TV November 29, 2019 By Emily Wakeman COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) – You may be recovering from a day spent at the department stores taking advantage of all of the Black Friday deals, but this week’s kickoff of the holiday shopping season continues tomorrow with Small Business Saturday. It’s a day…
Enhancing Entrepreneurship for the 21st Century Act advances
Great news! Yesterday Senator Tim Scott’s (R-SC) bill, Enhancing Entrepreneurship for the 21st Century Act, passed out of the Senate Commerce Committee with a unanimous vote.
Oregon senator wants to give small businesses a tax break for hiring the first employee
USA Today November 6, 2019 By Rhonda Abrams Special to USA TODAY In my USA TODAY column in November 2009 – 10 years ago – I proposed a new idea: a tax credit for small businesses who hire their very first employee. Throughout the last decade, I’ve repeatedly advocated this “first…
Wyden Introduces Bill To Boose Capital Access For Small Businesses
Today, Senator Wyden introduced the Providing Real Opportunities for Growth to Rising Entrepreneurs for Sustained Success Act (the PROGRESS Act) on a bicameral basis with Rep. Judy Chu in the House. The PROGRESS Act creates two new tax incentives to unlock the growth potential of all small businesses, designed to…
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Register Now for the ASBC Sustainable Business & Advocacy Summit: “Making Capitalism Work for All” – Dec. 10-11, 2019 in DC The stakes are higher every day, but it often feels like only a few people get it. You know our consumer economy can’t thrive without broad-based prosperity – and…
Small business is big business in S.C.
Charleston Regional Business Journal October 18, 2019 Staff Report You’ll hear it from politicians hoping to get your vote and occasionally raise your taxes for water, sewer and roads: Small business is the backbone of the nation’s economy. Turns out, they’re right. Most companies have fewer than five employees, and…
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…
Small-business group concerned about bill to change license rules
Florence Morning News September 26, 2019 By Matthew Christian FLORENCE, S.C. – The South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce shares the concerns of Florence Mayor Stephen J. Wukela regarding a bill, proposed by state Rep. Wallace H. “Jay” Jordan, that change the way municipalities collect business license taxes. Frank…
Senators Tim Scott (R-SC) and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) Introduce Legislation to Enhance Entrepreneurship for the 21st Century
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…