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 unnoÂticed Also, small businesses have been leadÂing the job growth during the […]
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On regulations, taxes and money in politics…”We’re not like them“ Columbia, SC—A national poll shows the opinions of small business owners differ dramatically from the advocacy of big businesses and multinational corporations.  The results of the national scientific poll were released over the past four weeks by the American Sustainable Business Council, Main Street Alliance
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Published February 5, 2012 By MARCELLA S. KREITER |Â 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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Published on February 5, 2012 By Charles Warner, Editor |The Union Daily Times Last in a series A program that supports entrepreneurs and small businesses, a partnership between government and industry that promotes manufacturing, and community-based healthcare should receive financial support from the State of South Carolina in fiscal 2012-2013 according to the South Carolina
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The Hill’s Congress BlogFebruary 1, 2012 By Frank Knapp, Jr. With Congress back in session, the Senate will have several bills to consider that seek to make it nearly impossible for federal agencies to implement regulations. The REINS Act, the Regulatory Flexibility Improvements Act and the Regulatory Accountability Act have already passed in the House.
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By Licia Jackson ljackson@scbiznews.com Jan. 13, 2012 The S.C. Women’s Business Center is being launched this month to provide free business counseling, technical assistance and education for women who have established businesses or who are thinking about starting a business. The Center for Women in Charleston has received a five-year, $750,000 Small Business Administration grant
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Here are two good articles that talk about the lack of lending to small businesses. The first issue is the problem with regulators, not regulations. We have heard numerous complaints of inconsistency of regulators in how they deal with financial institutions regarding small business lending. Some banking regulators are overzealous when it comes to the
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October 10, 2011 The Honorable Nikki Haley Governor State House Columbia, SC Dear Governor Haley, In an interview reported in The State yesterday you indicated your desire to revise the South Carolina tax code. Specifically you mentioned that one of the goals of this process would be to phase out the corporate income tax in
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Small Business Majority: Small business owners don’t believe the anti-regulatory hype Washington, D.C. – Small business owners support strong national standards to increase energy innovation, according to a new national opinion poll of 1,200 small business owners released today by Small Business Majority. The poll, conducted by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research, found that 87 percent
By Nate Libby, Special to the BDN Posted Oct. 04, 2011, at 5:41 p.m. Small-business owners know what’s happening in our communities because we serve and employ the workers who make our local economies thrive. Here in Maine, where the majority of workers either own or work for a small business, the perspective of small-business owners could be
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