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SLO County businesses eye bright future with return to normalcy and last updated 2021-02-08 13:45:14-05 The COVID-19 pandemic has emptied lifelong savings of business owners across the nation, and the same goes for some right here on the Central Coast. As vaccination efforts ramp up and a turn in the right direction could be around the corner, we look at the future of business in San Luis Obispo County. “We really got to a point of make or break for our businesses,” said Jim Dantona, President and CEO of the San Luis Obispo Chamber of Commerce, on the state of business during the se...

Listen: Dee Dee Myers, Senior Advisor to Gov. Newsom and Director of his Office of Business and Economic Development California’s Small Business have a second chance to apply for Round 2 of the Small Business COVID-19 Relief Grant Program

Credit: Ruth Pritchard Ruth Pritchard That was in December. Since then, state leaders say 2,721 of the 2,970 recipients of the South Carolina CARES Act Relief Grant Programs, including the Nonprofit Relief Grant Program, have received funds, but more than 200 businesses are still waiting. "Currently, there are 235 minority and small businesses that have not received payment yet. Payments for those recipients are being processed through the state’s established payment process, which is used to make any payment on behalf of the state to various entities or vendors," Kelly Coakley, a spokesper...

Freshwater industries, seafood retail markets, restaurants, boat yards, or vessel repair businesses are not covered under the federal CARES Act and are not eligible for funding at this time.

Nevada County’s employment rate ranked eighth in the state in December, according to estimates released last week by the California Employment Development Department.