The statewide small business forums held by the South Carolina Small Business Chamber of commerce (SCSBCC) in 2000 identified workforce development and job creation as a top issues for small businesses. South Carolina did not have then and still lacks adequate numbers of well-trained, technically skilled workers for small businesses to grow and develop. A […]
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Published on April 5, 2012 By Zach Carter and Ryan Grim | The Huffington Post WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will sign the JOBS Act into law Thursday, clinching a rare and hard-fought bipartisan victory for his presidency. But to secure the legislative win, he had to pick sides in a simmering feud between
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Published February 23, 2012 in BusinessWire ATLANTA (BUSINESS WIRE) — Electronic Recyclers International (ERI), the nation’s leading recycler of electronic waste, will participate tomorrow in a panel titled “the Role of Business Building a Sustainable Economy” for the Good Jobs, Green Jobs Conference, staged by the Blue Green Alliance Foundation at the Hyatt Regency in
Published February 13, 2012 on CNBC President Barack Obama’s 2013 budget proposal, released today, follows through on some of the promises he made in his State of the Union address last month to help small businesses create more jobs, and reduce barriers to manufacturing in the U.S. The proposed budget also calls for raising hundreds
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Published February 12, 2012 By Jenny Munro, The Greenville News, jmunro@greenvillenews.com Small businesses — those with 100 or fewer employees — make up 97 percent of South Carolina’s businesses and employ about 65 percent of the workforce, but sometimes their particular needs go unnoticed Also, small businesses have been leading the job growth during the
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Published February 5, 2012 By MARCELLA S. KREITER | United Press International We’ve all heard the arguments: Regulations are strangling U.S.businesses. It’s been a staple in the Republican playbook for years. Buta funny thing happened last week. The American Sustainable Business Council, the Main Street Alliance and the Small Business Majority released a survey blaming the
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Tomorrow at 9 a.m. at the State House in Columbia, citizens will gather in an Occupy Columbia rally. The event will go on all day if not beyond. Yesterday, Occupy Spartanburg took place. The event inspired an NPR report that tells about the desperate job situation in Spartanburg that reflects what is happening in many
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Dear Member of Congress: We urge you to reject calls for a “repatriation tax holiday” allowing U.S.multinational corporations to bring home offshore profits at a reduced tax rate. The proposed repatriation holiday is, pure and simple, an attempt by a few multinational corporations to dodge their rightful tax obligation. It is a tax avoidance measure
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Which will the GOP Presidential candidate choose during tonight’s debate–amnesty for coporate tax dodgers or jobs? Based on Monday’s Palmetto Freedom Forum in Columbia, the answer is sure to be amnesty for corporate tax dodgers. The GOP candidates have all proclaimed that the way to create jobs is to offer U.S.-based multinational corporations amnesty for
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Today the South Carolina House of Representatives begins debating the 2011-12 state budget. One important issue will be how to address Medicaid funding—reduce state funding and thus lose up to hundreds of millions in federal dollars or adopt a plan by the hospitals for them to pay extra into the Medicaid program to avoid the
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