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The Federal Trade Commission is warning small business owners about the latest COVID-19 scam. With a new round of Payroll Protection Program loans now available, scammers are impersonating Small Business Administration employees, calling owners to trick them into giving up information.

After a strong 2019 in which more than 130,000 people visited Pueblos Sangre de Cristo Arts and Conference Center, the center was off to another hot start in 2020. Sangre de Cristo CEO Jim Richerson said 2020 started out “just great” for the nonprofit center as it seemed to be firing on all cylinders. But then came the COVID-19 pandemic. “Friday, March 13 we got the call from the county and the health department that basically said due to the (COVID-19) pandemic, we’re shutting down,”...

<p><span><img width="350" height="219" src="/media/5855887/planned_parenthood_logo_cash_350x219.jpg" alt="Planned Parenthood logo with cash background" class="ImageFloatLeft"/>The executive director of the </span><span>oldest grassroots Catholic pro-life education organization in the United States</span><span> says the nation's largest abortion company could easily pay back the relief funds it took a...

 E-Mail ATLANTA--Early in the U.S. COVID-19 pandemic, unemployment claims were largely driven by state shutdown orders and the nature of a states economy and not by the virus, according a new article by Georgia State University economists. David Sjoquist and Laura Wheeler found no evidence the Payroll Protection Program (PPP) affected the number of initial claims during the first six weeks of the pandemic. Their research explores state differences in the magnitude of weekly unemployment insura...

In Tennessee, minorities account for 26.69% of the total population while only 13.82% of Tennessee startups are minority-owned.In addition to being a critical driver of growth in the economy overall, entrepreneurship is one of the many ways that individuals can build wealth in America. But as 2020 has illustrated, opportunities to participate and succeed in the entrepreneurial economy are not equally distributed by race and ethnicity.This year, a wave of racial justice protests nationwide and th...

As Americans turn to self-employment and small business ownership, our elected leaders must commit to pro-entrepreneurship policies.

The program also will provide businesses with access to grant opportunities, assistance accessing Payroll Protection Program loans, networking events and future initiatives put together by the Sixers. Black-owned businesses in the Philly region average less than a third of the annual sales of white-owned businesses, according to the 76ers.  During the public health crisis, 28% of Black-owned businesses were in industries with the largest total job losses compared to 20% of white-owned business...

Spurred to Action, LA Saloon Owner Creates ‘Think Tank’ to Help Struggling Businesses SHERMAN OAKS, Calif.—Angela Marsden was unexpectedly thrust into the media spotlight when she went viral for her fiery grievances against Los Angeles County’s COVID-19 restrictions, which prohibit outdoor dining, after an NBC comedy production was allowed to have a similar outdoor setup next to her restaurant, the Pineapple Hill Saloon. To her, it was a clear display of the city enforcing the rules unf...

WBGZ Radio 1/17/2021 | By Cole Lauterbach - Illinois Radio Network Todd Maisch, president and CEO of the Illinois Chamber of Commerce, said the government of Illinois needs to give more weight to the state’s economic crisis as the new year begins. “Government has focused on the health crisis, as it should have, but they have not held up their end of the economic crisis,” Maisch said. “We have thousands of businesses out of business because of that.” As Maisch sees it, state governmen...

Gov. Ralph Northam doesnt want Virginia to endorse a new tax benefit for business in federal emergency relief legislation that could cost the state a half-billion dollars or more while