We got a lot of prank phone calls, Leo Lee said. People would ask, Do you serve bats? Do you serve Covid?
Another time, a customer pushed past the blocked front door, where orders were being taken instead of inside the establishment, coughed in the Lees direction and walked back out. We were scared, Leo Lee said.
The pandemic has brought a twofold blow to Asian-American/Pacific Islander (AAPI) small business owners.
Just over 80% of small business owners reported negative effects from the pandemic and 44% have decreased the number of people they employ, according to a survey conducted from Sept. 28 to Nov. 30, 2020 by the Asian/Pacific Islander American Chamber of Commerce and Entrepreneurship. Almost 1 in 3 AAPI women business owners have experienced anti-AAPI sentiment because of the pandemic, the survey found.
Connecticut businesses have received more than $12 billion in federal COVID-19 recovery aid since the start of the pandemic.
The U.S. Small Business Administration’s Connecticut district director Catherine Marx provided the updated tally on Monday. The majority of the money $9.8 billion has come from the Paycheck Protection Program, which was extended in January after providing $6.7 billion worth of potentially forgivable loans to 64,000 businesses in the state last year.
Congress allowed certain businesses to apply for a second PPP loan under the extension, but it wasn’t immediately clear how many Connecticut businesses had received two loans or one.
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As it became clear that many workplaces – essential and less so – would remain open throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, ALIGN became a key player in a coalition of 70 unions, workers’ centers and nonprofits that have pushed the NY HERO Act. The bill sets enforceable workplace standards for testing, PPE, social distancing, hygiene and more. Maritza Silva-Farrell has led ALIGN, an alliance of labor and community organizations, since 2016.
52. Charlene Obernauer
Executive Director, New York Committee for Occupational Safety and Health
NYCOSH, the watchdog nonprofit that Charlene Obernauer leads, is well known for its annual report on construction deaths in New York state. The latest report on calendar year 2019 found that while construction-related deaths dipped slightly across the state, they rose 10% over the previous year within the five boroughs. In her role, Obernauer has advocated for better COVID-19 protection at New York work sites and also conducts tr
We got a lot of prank phone calls, Leo Lee said. People would ask, Do you serve bats? Do you serve Covid?
Another time, a customer pushed past the blocked front door, where orders were being taken instead of inside the establishment, coughed in the Lees direction and walked back out. We were scared, Leo Lee said.
The pandemic has brought a twofold blow to Asian-American/Pacific Islander (AAPI) small business owners.
Just over 80% of small business owners reported negative effects from the pandemic and 44% have decreased the number of people they employ, according to a survey conducted from Sept. 28 to Nov. 30, 2020 by the Asian/Pacific Islander American Chamber of Commerce and Entrepreneurship. Almost 1 in 3 AAPI women business owners have experienced anti-AAPI sentiment because of the pandemic, the survey found.
Thanks to Citizens Bank volunteers
Connections365.org in a news release thanked Citizens Bank for sending volunteers to help remove a tree, cut wood and clean up the damage from the ice storm. The youth at Connetions365 live on site were not allowed to walk around the therapeutic path or gardens until Jim Vu and his team volunteered their bodies, minds in a spirit of teamwork, collaboration and just hard work into our campus, the nonprofit stated in the release.
Connections365 serves youth age 7-20 through therapeutic foster care, mentoring, residential services and mental health counseling.
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