Newsweek August 15, 2020 BY ANDREW LISA, STACKER NEWS According to the U.S. Small Business Association (SBA), 99.9% of all the businesses in America are small businesses. There are 30.7 million of them in total and they employ nearly 60 million people. That’s 47.3%—nearly half—of America’s combined workforce. Most work for businesses that employ fewer than 100 …
The Hill June 12, 2019 By Frank Knapp Jr., Opinion Contributor The recently released Department of Labor May report on employment revealed a shocking number: New jobs last month rose by only 75,000, dramatically below expectations. Even worse, the number of new jobs created in March and April were revised down by tens of thousands …
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Follow Google’s advice: Other web sites linked to your site is one of the most important elements in a search engine’s algorithm. That’s what Google told a website owner who was complaining about the lack of traffic coming from Google’s search engine as reported in the New York Times on October 4, 2012. If you …
The new leader of the South Carolina Senate Democratic Caucus, Nikki Setzler, has a reputation as a respected problem-solver who works well across party lines. This Wednesday he will be having breakfast with the state’s Republican Governor, Nikki Haley (no relationJ), for a bipartisan discussion on improving the funding formula for K-12 public education. This …
WACH Fox News June 28, 2012 COLUMBIA (WACH, AP) – The Supreme Court’s ruling to uphold the individual insurance requirement of President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act has South Carolina leaders torn. After the announcement of the highest court’s decision Thursday morning, state leaders began sharing their responses to the health care law. While some …
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E & E News Jean Chemnick, E&E reporter Published June 28, 2012 U.S. EPA under President Obama has frequently given short shrift to the needs and concerns of small businesses when crafting regulations, business-sector critics of the agency told the House Small Business Committee yesterday. The hearing was attended almost exclusively by Republican committee members …
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It would be nice to believe that with Rick Perry dropping out of the GOP primary last week that the idea he floated earlier this month in South Carolina of killing off the Small Business Administration would itself be killed off. But that’s not going to happen. There are still too many politicians willing to …
The lead story for the 7 AM East coast viewers of the Today Show (NBC) this morning was a report by Carl Quintanilla of CNBC. Quintanilla’s gave an analysis of the good economic news that unemployment in December was down 11% from the previous year and the four week average unemployment rate is at the …
I had the opportunity to visit Zuccotti Park in Lower Manhattan last Thursday. No, I didn’t see Jackson Brown play for the Occupy Wall Street protestors and on-lookers. But I did meet Jesse La Greca who has become a media voice for the movement. This marks my fourth visit to an Occupy site including ours …
Below are some excerpts from an opinion editorial by former South Carolina U.S. Senator Ernest F. Hollings (1966-2005) that ran in today’s Charleston Post and Courier. Never one to mince words, Mr. Hollings lays the blame for our economic condition on the “free traders”. In his opinion, resurrecting our country’s manufacturing is the key to our future. In …
