FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CONTACT: Mike O’Halloran, NFIB State Director in Delaware, 301-335-1063 / mikea.ohalloran@nfib.org

or Mike Donohue, Senior Media Manager, 202-525-9835 / michael.donohue@nfib.org 

DOVER (Jan. 20, 2021) – Today, Governor John Carney gave his annual State of the State address from Legislative Hall in Dover. Among the priorities laid out, Carney put his support behind SB1 – a paid leave insurance program. Mike O’Halloran, state director for NFIB in Delaware, had the following to say about the announcement:

“Governor Carney was right to highlight the $400 million his administration provided for struggling small businesses through various grant and loan programs during the pandemic. Unfortunately, his support for a costly state-run program paid for by a new payroll tax on small business owners and their employees will undermine his administration’s efforts to help Delaware’s job creators recover from this economic crisis. Senate Bill 1 creates a new fixed labor cost, and that will serve as a deterrent, not a catalyst, to solving our state’s labor shortage.”

About NFIB

For more than 75 years, NFIB has been the voice of small business, advocating on behalf of America’s small and independent business owners, both in Washington, D.C., and in all 50 state capitals. NFIB is nonprofit, nonpartisan, and member driven. Since our founding in 1943, NFIB has been exclusively dedicated to small and independent businesses and remains so today. For more information, please visit www.NFIB.com. 

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