Kelly Harris runs restaurants on Jacksonville’s Southside and Frank Knapp Jr. runs business groups in South Carolina. But on frustrations over roadblocks facing small businesses, they’re in the same place.
That’s why Knapp, president and CEO of the South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce, ended up Monday outside Harris’s Village Bread Café on Philips Highway launching a nine-city swing through Florida to publicize a campaign labeled “Reform the SBA.”
Despite regular statements by politicians that small businesses are the backbone of America’s economy, Knapp said, “the backbone of our economy is deteriorating.”
The campaign highlights concerns about slumping rates of new business startups and asks Floridians to urge members of Congress to create a new federal small-business loan program and give new responsibilities and resources to the U.S. Small Business Administration.
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