Just ask Knapp. “Small business owners are being hammered by immigration enforcement reducing labor supply and consumer demand as well as by tariffs driving up costs and reducing consumer demand.” …

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“Small businesses know firsthand how the economy is going,” according to Frank Knapp, president and CEO of the South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce. Let him count the ways that perception works. Spoiler alert: immigrants’ labor is central to the small business sector stateside.

…Welcome to the flying blind school of economics. That doesn’t mean mom-and-pop shops are unaware of what’s happening on Main St. Small businesses don’t need a weatherwoman to tell them which way the wind blows, to paraphrase the acclaimed musician Bob Dylan.

Currently, however, the September jobs report is missing at least in part due to the shutdown of the federal government. Given the reach and size of the U.S. economy, that’s a big problem, one grabbing attention, politically speaking….

“The people who were responsible for that are gone.’’

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Santee Cooper,as well as a Westinghouse executive ran afoul of criminal authorities.

“I’m not concerned that this Brookfield company has some relationship with the past problems at the V.C. Summer plant,’’ Knapp said.

it now owns Westinghouse, which played a role in the 2017 nuclear construction project failure. But Knapp said he’s not worried about that causing problems in restarting the project. The project’s troubles were kept secret by utility executives who later faced criminal charges. Executives from

The Westinghouse plant in Columbia makes fuel rods for nuclear power plants like the ones that would be constructed under Brookfield at the V.C. Summer site in Fairfield County….

…Frank Knapp, who heads the S.C. Small Business Chamber of Commerce, called the choice of Brookfield ironic given

multinational corporation that owns Westinghouse, the company that previously was involved in the shuttered expansion project and one that operates Columbia’s atomic fuel factory on Bluff Road. Brookfield Asset Management acquired a majority interest in Westinghouse two years ago.

jobs for four months. So small business has really been hurting.”

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Frank Knapp
President & CEO
SC Small Business Chamber of Commerce
1717 Gervais Street
Columbia, SC 29201
803-600-6874
[email protected]

He worries that members of the National Guard will start not renewing their contracts with the Guard and employers will start being uncomfortable in hiring a Guardsman if the National Guard becomes politicized.
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Chrisopher Purdy, founder and CEO of the Chamberlain Network, is concerned about how misuse of the National Guard will negatively impact the Guard in moral, community trust, and readiness.

The EWEA would establish a new H-2C visa program for non-agricultural, “low-skilled” workers. Rep. Loyd Smucker (R-PA) introduced the bipartisan bill with ten cosponsors.

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