Three Things to Know: June 13th

This week's information compiled by your SC Chamber team includes: 
SC Chamber Releases 2025 Results for Business Report, DEW Launches New Site for Workforce Data, Take the 2025 Grassroots Survey Today!

 1. SC Chamber Releases 2025 Results for Business Report

This week, the SC Chamber released its annual Results for Business report recapping its advocacy efforts during the 2025 state legislative session. The Results for Business report serves as a follow-up to the 2025 Competitiveness Agenda released in January, which identified seven areas of focus for our General Assembly to address during the recently completed legislative session, and details the SC Chamber’s progress and results.

The 2025 Results for Business report shows that the SC Chamber’s advocacy efforts resulted in over a $807 million impact for South Carolina’s business community, or approximately $4,275 per employer in the state.

In a statement, SC Chamber President and CEO Mike Brenan said, “With the help of the forward-thinking leadership in the General Assembly, we were able to deliver relief from a broken civil justice system that cost our businesses and families millions of dollars each year, significant tax cuts, confidence in the future of the state’s energy grid, and technical college scholarships for the most critical jobs. These policies will undoubtedly make South Carolina an even better state for business. We appreciate the opportunity to represent the interests of South Carolina’s job creators and will work collaboratively with the General Assembly to deliver even more pro-business wins in 2026.”

View the 2025 Results for Business report here.

2. DEW Launches New Site for Workforce Data

The Labor Market Information (LMI) division of the S.C. Department of Employment and Workforce (DEW) has launched a brand-new website – lmi.sc.gov – that provides vital data about our state’s workforce, including statistics about the current job market, historical records, and a myriad of resources and research about our state’s employment, unemployment, industries, and occupations.

The website features data collected and analyzed by DEW’s LMI team and made publicly available. The navigation menu is categorized to make it easy to find relevant data, regardless of audience or topic. Jobseekers can use the website to help them evaluate what occupations they’d like to pursue in their regions while employers can see the latest industry trends, academic professionals can utilize the data and sources in their work, students and educators can find data to help explore different career pathways, and more.

The new, online platform comes with an easy-to-use interface, as well as plenty of options that allow users to explore the most up-to-date information regarding the labor market, including economic analysis reports, dashboards, Standard Occupational Classification codes, the SC Data Trends magazine, the LMI Insights blog, and a directory to the Bureau of Labor Statistics via the Data Hub tab.

Community Profiles has historically been one of the most popular LMI offerings and is also a main feature of the new website, now redesigned to improve navigation and functionality. The data displayed in Community Profiles revolves around South Carolina’s local industries and businesses, including historical trends, unemployment rates, employment projections, and wages. Users can specify and isolate a specific region of choice when browsing the webpage. New engaging data within the profiles is expected to be added soon.

3. Take the 2025 Grassroots Survey Today!

With the 2025 legislative session officially in the rearview mirror, your team at the SC Chamber is already working hard to identify the policy solutions needed in 2026 to make South Carolina’s economy even stronger and to unleash our state’s full economic potential.

But we need your help! To ensure our advocacy efforts reflect the needs of all businesses (large and small) across the state, we need you to answer this year’s Grassroots Survey.

The data collected from this year’s survey will be combined with feedback received from local Chambers of Commerce across the state, ultimately forming our annual Competitiveness Agenda which will define and outline the business community’s top legislative priorities for 2026 and serve as the foundation for the SC Chamber’s advocacy work with the General Assembly next year. Learn more about the 2025 Competitiveness Agenda here.

Click here to take the 2025 Grassroots Survey today. Please email any questions or comments to our EVP & Chief Government Affairs Officer Will Frierson.