{"id":112449,"date":"2026-02-12T22:35:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T22:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/112449\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T22:35:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T22:35:09","slug":"senator-nick-miller-held-pa-competitiveness-caucus-roundtable-on-startups-and-small-businesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/112449\/","title":{"rendered":"Senator Nick Miller Held PA Competitiveness Caucus Roundtable on Startups and Small Businesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-148875\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Miller-Roundtable-1024x538.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"538\"  \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 115%;\">ALLENTOWN, PA \u2013\u00a0Today, Senator Nick Miller\u00a0held a roundtable discussion on startups and small businesses\u00a0with\u00a0the\u00a0Pennsylvania Competitiveness Caucus,\u00a0Pennsylvania Chamber of Business and Industry,\u00a0the Allentown Economic Development Corporation, and local business leaders.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 115%;\">This legislative roundtable focused on\u00a0state programs and legislative policies to foster new business creation, forge successful career paths, and incentivize economic growth.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 115%;\">\u201cToday\u2019s roundtable highlights how Pennsylvania is driving innovation and creating opportunities by supporting small businesses and fostering new business growth,\u201d said Senator Miller. \u201cThese conversations help us bring fresh ideas back to Harrisburg to guide policy that strengthens entrepreneurship and job creation. Thank you to AEDC for hosting today\u2019s event, our Co-Chairs Senators Phillips-Hill, Representative Friel, along with PA Chamber\u2019s Berstein, and all participants for contributing to this important dialogue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 115%;\">\u201cPennsylvania has made significant progress in recent years because leaders in both parties have stayed focused on pro-growth reforms that strengthen our competitiveness,\u201d said Luke Bernstein, President &amp; CEO, PA Chamber of Business and Industry. \u201cThe work of the Competitiveness Caucus has helped drive that momentum by leading efforts to modernize our tax code to support startups and small businesses, streamline permitting and regulatory reviews, and investing in our workforce. Conversations like this roundtable \u2014 held in communities across the commonwealth \u2014 are essential to identifying what\u2019s working and what still needs attention so Pennsylvania remains a place where businesses can start, grow, and succeed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 115%;\">\u201cFor more than 35 years Allentown Economic Development Corporation\u2019s (AEDC) Bridgeworks Enterprise Center has supported local entrepreneurs, and specifically those innovating in manufacturing,\u201d said Scott Unger, Executive Director of Allentown Economic Development Corporation. \u201cWe are proud to host this meaningful roundtable discussion to highlight how supporting start-ups fosters innovation and strengthens our regional economy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, PA \u2013\u00a0Today, Senator Nick Miller\u00a0held a roundtable discussion on startups and small businesses\u00a0with\u00a0the\u00a0Pennsylvania Competitiveness Caucus,\u00a0Pennsylvania Chamber of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112450,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[53733,28,33703,53734,30,29,912,2918],"class_list":["post-112449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-allentown-economic-development-corporation-allentown-economic-development-corporation","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-chamber-of-business-and-industry","tag-pennsylvania-competitiveness-caucus","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-senator-nick-miller","tag-small-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}