Williamsburg County and the City of Walterboro are among a dozen rural communities in South Carolina dividing up $3.7 million in grants and loans from the United States Department of Agriculture.
The development, in the area of Clements Ferry Road and Cainhoy Road, will feature single-family residential homes, according to plans submitted to the commission.
Fortune 500 companies utilize independent employees for jobs that include customer service, tech support, and sales. The pay starts at $10 to $14 per hour.
The land where a longstanding Goose Creek chapel resides may soon be rezoned for commercial use, leaving some in the community saddened that it may go away.
The Coordinating Council for Economic Development has approved a $100,000 Set-Aside grant to Berkeley County to assist with costs related to the project.
More than $6 billion will head to South Carolina over a five-year period as part of the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act passed by the House late last week, according to the White House.
Elbit Systems of America, LLC, a provider of products and systems focusing on sectors including defense, homeland security and commercial aviation announced plans to establish operations in Charleston County Monday.
According to the county supervisor, Johnny Cribb, in the last decade Berkeley County grew by 52,000 people. Cribb says that’s the second fastest in the state and the top 1% in the nation.
The average price per gallon of gas in South Carolina fell by one cent last week as oil prices dipped below $80 per barrel for the first time in weeks.
South Carolina has about 25,000 more open jobs right now than when the state announced it would stop allowing people to receive federal pandemic unemployment benefits.
Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh visited the Port of Charleston on Wednesday with the intention of discussing supply chain disruption issues and the Biden-Harris administration’s support for workers and employers.
Ten Republican governors joined South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster in sending a letter against proposed tax breaks for manufacturers of electric cars and buyers of electric cars assembled by labor unions.
According to the South Carolina Restaurant and Lodging Association, many of these vacancies have gone unfilled since establishments cut staffing last year during the height of the coronavirus pandemic.
A 16-acre lot located off Faison Road in north Mount Pleasant is up for sale, and Mount Pleasant councilmembers voted in favor of entering into a purchase agreement to buy the lot for $6,490,440.
As generations go by, a parcel of land can end up with dozens of owners. Without clear ownership, the land can easily be lost to developers and timber harvesters, tax sales and forced partition.
The unemployment rate for the state of South Carolina fell slightly in September, according to a just-released report from the Department of Employment and Workforce.
South Carolina employment officials say they received the lowest weekly total of first-time unemployment claims last week since the COVID-19 pandemic began.
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