Press Release Contact: Frank Knapp fknapp@scsbc.org 803-600-6874 cell Columbia, SC, September 26, 2020—The South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce (SCSBCC) has compiled data showing a decline in new business license applications in numerous municipalities and counties in South Carolina. The data shows a worrisome trend in the health of…
Retail stores in South Carolina prepare to welcome customers back, follow social distancing guidelines
(Buddy Delaney serves on the Board of Directors of the SC Small Business Chamber of Commerce) WIS-TV April 20, 2020 Watch video COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) – Buddy Delaney owns Best Mattress in West Columbia. He said when they open up their tomorrow showrooms, they’ll have strict guidelines in place to…
Opinion: Danger Lurks Beneath National Economic Headlines
GazetteXtra (Janesville, WI), July 11, 2019 Inside Sources, July 11, 2019 Waco Tribune-Herald, July 14, 2019 by Frank Knapp Jr. Two economic stories received big headlines the week of July 4. The Dow Jones industrial average hit a record high and the economy added 224,000 jobs in June. On the…
The importance of a middle class
Read these words and guess who said them. “My job is to put food on the table for people…creating a middle class….It’s the right thing to do….What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment” Do you think President Obama or some other high-profile Democratic Party official said these…