From the SBA South Carolina District Office 2015 SC SMALL BUSINESS & ADVOCACY AWARD WINNERS The SBA South Carolina District Office is proud to announce the winners of the state’s 2015 Small Business & Advocacy Awards. The awards, which are part of SBA’s celebration of National Small Business Week, recognize the Palmetto State’s top small […]
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U.S. Small Business Administration January 22, 2015 ATLANTA, GA – Columbia, South Carolina small business owner Frank Knapp, Jr. has been appointed to the U.S. Small Business Administration’s Region IV Regulatory Fairness Board by SBA Administrator Maria Contreras-Sweet. Regional Regulatory Fairness Boards in all 10 of SBA’s regions represent the voice of small business on regulatory
Today the South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce begins to publicly rollout our 2015 state legislative agenda. And in honor of the life and work of Martin Luther King Jr. on this day of national recognition, we start with an issue that addresses Dr. King’s concern for income equality. In Eugene Robinson’s opinion editorial
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The Obama administration has permitted seismic surveys from Delaware to the middle of Florida to determine the existence and size of offshore oil and gas reserves. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management is reviewing 9 permits from oil companies for conducting these surveys and is taking public comments. There are two threats to South Carolina
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Small businesses in Chester and Lancaster counties have a special opportunity on January 7, 2015 to hear from an expert on health insurance options available to them and their employees through the federal health insurance marketplace. The sessions are scheduled for: 12:00 p.m. – Native American Studies Center 5:30 p.m. – Chester Downtown Development Association Catherine
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The Center for Effective Government (CEG) has published a new report, Gaming the Rules: How Big Business Hijacks the Small Business Review Process to Weaken Public Protections. David Levine, co-founder and president of the American Sustainable Business Council, and I joined CEG’s Ron White in a telepresser this past Monday to give reporters extra time
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“The (U.S.) Chamber serves the express interests of a foreign corporation at the expense of a very large number of its Affiliates and individual business members.” (from an amicus brief filed in the U.S. Supreme Court on October 6, 2014 by: Mobile Area Chamber of Commerce New Orleans Chamber of Commerce Greater Pensacola Chamber of
U.S. Chamber picks big business over small business yet again Read More »
I believe in the American Dream. I believe that here, in the richest and most powerful nation in the world, any man or woman willing to work hard and play by the rules should be able to rise as far as their talent and ambition will carry them. I believe that this is one of
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It used to be that a job was a job was a job. As the story below shows, that’s not the way it is anymore. All those minimum wage workers our Governor crows about being brought here by Walmart are not lifting up our economy. Do we want more job opportunities for South Carolinians? Sure
GSA Business September 19, 2014 By Ashley Boncimino The S.C. Small Business Chamber of Commerce announced its endorsement of a $10.10 federal minimum wage, a nearly 40% increase from the current $7.25 per hour. The organization’s stance would increase the minimum wage over 2 1/2 years. “Our state badly needs a boost in consumer demand,
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