I had the opportunity to visit Zuccotti Park in Lower Manhattan last Thursday. No, I didn’t see Jackson Brown play for the Occupy Wall Street protestors and on-lookers. But I did meet Jesse La Greca who has become a media voice for the movement. This marks my fourth visit to an Occupy site including ours […]
By Bob Keener | Business for Shared Prosperity Washington, October 11, 2011 – As big American companies step up calls for another tax holiday on money they’ve parked offshore, Senator Carl Levin, chairman of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, has today released a study showing that a similar 2004 “one-time” tax holiday did not
When the federal government was bailing out big banks, Wall Street’s corporate America, Fannie and Freddie; one important federal financial program stayed solvent—the Small Business Administration. The SBA’s primary job is simply to encourage private financial institutions to make small business loans that they might otherwise not do. The SBA accomplishes this by guaranteeing up
This is a follow-up to last Friday’s blog on the ranking of South Carolina on entrepreneurship. The ranking was less than flattering but I said that someone needed to dig into exactly how the rankings were made. Friday afternoon I interviewed Michelle Abraham, Director of the South Carolina Small Business Development Center. She had talked
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According to a report released by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, South Carolina ranks last in entrepreneurial activity—down from 43rd last year. The 2010 State Entrepreneurship Index evaluated a state’s percentage growth and per capita growth in business establishments, its business formation rate, the number of patents per thousand residents, and the gross receipts of sole
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January 8, 2011USA Today By Steve Strauss The bad news is all around us and never seems to end. If it’s not Tea Party Republicans who somehow, shockingly seemed willing to allow the country to go into default before they would accept even the most basic of revenue increases, it’s a president who seems unable
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If you’re a locally-owned brick-and-mortar business relying solely on Google to drive internet shoppers to you, read this New York Times story. It describes how lead generators, located in other cities and other countries, are outsmarting Google into giving preferential search placement to businesses often with questionable experience and ethics. But we can help your
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Yesterday Governor Haley vetoed the entire state budget for the South Carolina Small Business Development Center. Please see the letter below for our reasons for asking the Legislature to override Veto # 12. Call your House and Senate member ASAP, before noon today, and ask them to vote t override Veto # 12. You can
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Last week, Small Business Administration Administrator Karen Mills spoke to the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce. She had good news for many businesses seeking credit. “Lending is back to 2008 levels,” Mills said. But the news wasn’t so good for the small businesses in geographically challenged areas and our smallest of small businesses. According to
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Almost 7 years ago, The South Carolina Small Business Chamber made an economic development proposal to a S.C. House Rural Caucus. Extend the job tax credits available to big businesses that add 10 new jobs to small businesses that create just one new job. Our argument was very simple. A job is a job. Ten
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