Texas Association of Business asks Gov. Abbott to stop accepting, distributing weekly $300 in federal aid Employers believe that supplemental UI benefit payments from Washington is disincentivizing work and resulting in many good Texas jobs going unfilled. Author: Reagan Roy Updated: 12:02 PM CDT May 13, 2021
TYLER, Texas The Texas Association of Business, along with 37 business associations and chambers of commerce, sent a letter to Gov. Greg Abbott and the Chairman of the Texas Workforce Commission, Bryan Daniel, asking them to consider ending Texas’s participation in the supplemental federal UI payment which stacks on top of standard unemployment insurance.
Employers are citing the $300 additional weekly federal stimulus payment as the biggest barrier to fill their job openings and some states have already announced they are ending participation in this program.
Business leaders rally to oppose discriminatory legislation
Apr 19, 2021 |
Texas Competes, represented by business leaders and of chambers of commerce, held a press conference at the Capitol in Austin today, Monday, April 19, to oppose a long list of discriminatory bills working their way through the Legislature.
The legislation includes bans on trans athletes from participating in sports to bans on providing medically necessary gender treatment to a number of license to discriminate bills, both specific and broad. Other bills would ban gender marker changes, criminalize HIV infection and invalidate local nondiscrimination ordinances.
State Rep. Jessica Gonzalez, D-Dallas, kicked off the presentation. Gonzalez authored an omnibus LGBTQ nondiscrimination bill also working its way through committee.
Financial assistance available for small businesses
Small business empowerment grant
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CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas â The United Corpus Christi Chamber of Commerce has created a program to address the ongoing need for financial assistance as the community continues to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic.
With the support of NEC co-op energy, Buckeye Partners, and Gulf Coast Growth Ventures, the program will administer $250 grants to awardees until all funds have been used.
Applicants must meet all three of the following requirements:
Employ 20 or fewer full-time or part-time employees (or equivalent) at all business locations.
Must have been in business prior to March 2020.
Texas Leaders Unite To Urge Passage Of A Permanent Legislative Solution For DACA Recipients
Texas Opportunity Coalition will work to build bipartisan support for effort among Texas congressional delegation
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AUSTIN, Texas, Feb. 2, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Today, the Texas Business Immigration Coalition (a member of the American Business Immigration Coalition) and the Texas Business Leadership Council, along with more than thirty Texas leaders in business and higher education launched the Texas Opportunity Coalition, a new initiative that promotes and supports targeted immigration reform. The Texas Opportunity Coalition is dedicated to securing passage of a federal Dream Act, which would provide young undocumented immigrants (Dreamers) in Texas and across the country the right to work, pursue higher education, contribute to their local economies, and obtain permanent legal status.