These companies took $1.8 billion in federal aid to save jobs. They laid off 90,000 workers anyway.
NationofChange These companies took $1.8 billion in federal aid to save jobs. They laid off 90,000 workers anyway. Public Integrity found that more than 900 companies took PPP loans while laying off or furloughing at least 90,000 workers in 44 states and the District of Columbia. Rosa Rodriguez spent eight years ironing and hanging bathrobes for guests at the Mirage, the Bellagio and other five-star hotels on the Las Vegas Strip. But as COVID-19 spread through the United States and kept tourists away, there were fewer and fewer robes for her to press. In March, Rodriguez and abou...