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Do you know if your business qualifies for tax refund

June 22, 2022 Thanks to our February webinar on Employee Retention Tax Credits (ERTC), many of you have received sizable refunds from the Federal Government. These tax refunds range from the mid $30k all the way up to just under $700k, with multiple companies receiving six figure refunds. If you were not able to watch the […]

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Opinion: Blame Big Oil, now laughing all the way to the bank

Charleston City Paper, June 15, 2022 Columbia Regional Business Report, July 18, 2022 South Carolina Lawyers Weekly, July 18, 2022 By Frank Knapp Jr. The price of gas jumped by 25 cents in one week. You are angry. The average price of gas is 59 cents higher than a month ago and you are now

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Opinion: Democracy Failed and Americans Died

Inside Sources, June 13, 2022 Elko (NV) Daily Free Press, July 4, 2022 By Frank Knapp Jr. Last month, 19 children and two teachers were massacred in a Texas school because democracy failed. Last month, 10 people were slaughtered in a Buffalo supermarket because democracy failed. This month, four people died at a doctor’s office because

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An Approach to Localized Policy Priorities: South

Start Us Up America’s New Business Plan| January 21, 2022 For more than 20 years, the South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce (SCSBCC) has promoted entrepreneurs’ general interests to governments at the state, local, and even the federal levels. Frank Knapp, the group’s president, CEO and co-founder, has led his chamber’s efforts.  As the “voice for

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SBAF Co-Chair to Testify Before Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs’ Subcommittee on Economic Policy on Importance of Affordable Childcare to Small Business 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contact: Conan Knollconan@emccommunications.com (831) 524-6764 SBAF Co-Chair to Testify Before Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs’ Subcommittee on Economic Policy on Importance of Affordable Childcare to Small Business  Today, Small Business for America Co-Chair Walt Rowen will testify before the Senate’s Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs’ Subcommittee on Economic

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Higher inflation deflates optimism among small business owners, an NFIB study shows

Post and Courier April 14, 2022 Higher inflation deflates optimism among small business owners, an NFIB study shows By Jodi Shafto jshafto@postandcourier.com The number of small businesses that say inflation is their single most crucial problem is at 31 percent, the biggest share since the first quarter of 1981 — many are having to raise

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SBAF’s Founding Co-Chair Frank Knapp Jr. Becomes Policy & Outreach Advisor; Small Business Council Member Walt Rowen Becomes Co-Chair

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Conan Knoll conan@emccommunications.com (831) 524-6764 Founding Small Business for America’s Future Co-chair Frank Knapp Jr. to take active role in serving the organization as policy and outreach advisor and long-time small business owner and advocate Walt Rowen to become co-chair Washington, D.C., April 4, 2022— Small Business for America’s Future (SBAF), one

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Small Business Group: House vote to cap insulin costs a needed step in reducing price of life-saving medicine and small business healthcare costs

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contact: Conan Knoll conan@emccommunications.com (831) 524-6764 Statement by Small Business for America’s Future Co-Chair Anne Zimmerman on the House’s passage of legislation capping the cost of insulin Washington, D.C., March 31, 2022—The House of Representatives passage today of legislation capping the exorbitant cost of insulin is promising progress in reining the

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Why are so many South Carolinians unemployed as job openings rise? Task force aims to find answer

WIS-TV March 25, 2022 Watch Video By Mary Green COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) – The number of open jobs across South Carolina totals to six figures, tens of thousands more than the number of vacancies before the pandemic. But new data released Friday reveals slightly over half the number of South Carolinians who are old enough and eligible to

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