Lexington County Chronicle August 26, 2021 A business group wants federal unemployment benefits reinstated. SC Supreme Court Chief Justice Donald Beatty has approved the filing of a friend of the court brief challenging the legality of the state ending federal unemployment benefits. Gov. Henry McMaster and Daniel Ellzey, SC Department…
Brief filed detailing economic and small business harm from early ending of federal pandemic unemployment benefits in SC
Press Release Contact: Marie Claire Tran-Leung Shriver Center on Poverty Law 312-307-3467 marieclairetran@povertylaw.org Frank Knapp Jr. South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce 803-600-6874 fknapp@scsbc.org Columbia, SC, August 26, 2021—Today Chief Justice Donald W. Beatty for the South Carolina Supreme Court, approved the filing of an Amicus Brief supporting a…
Unemployment benefits running out for thousands of South Carolinians
WWIS WCSC WRDW June 29, 2021 By Adam Mintzer and Patrick Phillips COLUMBIA, S.C. – Approximately 60,000 unemployed South Carolinians will no longer be eligible for any unemployment benefits starting Wednesday. The South Carolina Department of Employment and Workforce says that includes both federal and state benefits. South Carolina is…
Santa or Grinch and small business lending craters
Republicans in the U.S. House decide to be either Santa or the Grinch this holiday season when they vote later today on whether to agree with the Senate’s bipartisan plan to extend payroll tax cuts and unemployment benefits for two months. This is a big deal for small businesses. If…
No more “brother-in-law” excuse
All of us have heard the anecdotal stories of how somebody’s brother-in-law is unemployed but yet won’t try to get a job because he’s making more money collecting an unemployment check. Some politicians even use these stories to explain the high unemployment numbers. “If they weren’t getting paid,” they say,…