South Carolina’s elections chief, Secretary of State Mark Hammond, did not respond to a request for comment about a reform plan proposed by the advocacy group Americans for Citizen Voting (ACV) to bar all noncitizens from voting in any South Carolina election.
South Carolina last year recorded a homicide rate of 10.5 per 100,000 residents, compared to the U.S. rate of 6.5 per 100,000 and the state’s 5.7 rate a decade earlier, according to newly released FBI crime data.
The total amount of federal public education stimulus funds that South Carolina received from Congress during the COVID-19 pandemic is $3.27 billion, according to a tally from the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL).
South Carolina seniors oppose a Democrat plan to use payroll deductions from Whites, Hispanics and Asians to fund slavery reparations for Black Americans. according to the results of a South Carolina Metric Media poll.
The average travel time to get to work in Orangeburg is now 29.1 minutes, making it the worst city for commuting in South Carolina, according to a new analysis from the insurance comparison website Insurify.
The number of South Carolina beaches that had hazardous water quality for at least one out of four sampling days in 2020 was seven, according to a new analysis of bacteria data in 29 coastal and Great Lakes States as well as Puerto Rico.
The collective wealth of South Carolina residents increased $2.6 billion in 2019 due to population migration trends, according to a new analysis of Internal Revenue Service data by the nonprofit Wirepoints website.
Under Democrat Joe Biden’s federal tax plan, the top marginal tax rate in South Carolina could hit 56.34 percent, according to a new analysis by the Tax Foundation.
Republican Gov. Henry McMaster received a grade of “B” from the Washington-based CATO Institute for his tax and spending policies since 2018, according to a ranking of governors that comes out every two years.
South Carolina will lose $278.4 million in total state and local tax revenue from the hotel industry due to COVID-19, according to an Oxford Economics estimate released by the American Hotels and Lodging Association.