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Employer summit focused on hiring the disabled in SC coming in October

By Mike Switzer
Published September 2, 2026 at 6:30 AM EDT
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One in three South Carolinians has a disability. Unfortunately, though, 60% of people with disabilities are unemployed. Our next guest says this is a workforce that employers shouldn’t dismiss. And that’s why her organization holds a one-day conference for business managers, executives, HR professionals, and service providers that is coming back to Columbia on October 7th. Mike Switzer interviews Marly Saade, with Able SC in Columbia, SC.

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Mike Switzer
After almost 20 years, Mike Switzer retired from Wells Fargo Securities in 2001 as Senior Vice President/Investment Officer and Certified Portfolio Manager. In 1999, he and his wife, Maggie, purchased and operated for eight years the Baskin Robbins ice cream store on Forest Drive in Columbia. They grew the store from a bottom-tier operation in the Baskin Robbins franchise system to one in the top 5% nationwide within three years, tripling sales along the way. While operating the ice cream store, Mike and Maggie received patents for a portable ice cream sink and fold-down sneezeguard they invented and in 2002 started Magnolia Carts, an ice cream cart manufacturing company, which they sold in 2013.
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