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| December 28, 2020 | New Stimulus: A Shot in the Arm for Public Works Contractors | Meanwhile, the omnibus, which funds the government through September, is giving more money this year than last to the Department of Transportation, Federal Railroad Administration, and the Federal ...Read more |
| December 24, 2020 | Minority Businesses Stand to Benefit From New PPP Rules, Pilot Program | In addition to earmarks meant to help minority businesses secure forgivable loans, new legislation passed by Congress creates a pilot program to help foster small businesses owners around historica ...Read more |
| December 21, 2020 | What Your Small Business Needs to Know About the New Stimulus Package | Congress is poised to pass a 5,593-page economic stimulus bill. As Contractor News continues to examine the massive document, we wanted to present some highlights from the bill pertaining to small ...Read more |
| December 18, 2020 | One in Six US Restaurants Have Closed Down — Moms-and-Pops Suffer Much Worse than Chains | The US restaurant industry is undergoing an earthquake. Rather than small restaurants surviving through a hibernation (or a partial hibernation) during corona — backed by unprecedented amounts of ...Read more |
| December 4, 2020 | Congress Weighs Watered-Down Stimulus, as New PPP Failures Revealed | This week, new flaws in the Payment Protection Program (PPP) have come to light thanks to a lawsuit forcing the Small Business Administration (SBA) to release troves of data on the program. Meanwhi ...Read more |
| August 3, 2020 | Small vet firms turn to crowdsourcing, while it’s unclear how much PPP money they’ve received | The not-for-profit National Veteran Business Development Council (NVBDC) has signed on to a virtual summit on crowdfunding small businesses. The foundation joins other leading organizations for vet ...Read more |
| November 15, 2020 | Puerto Rico: A HUBZone boost for a ravaged economy? | The U.S. federal government’s updated rules for Historically Underutilized Business Zones (HUBzones) program could be a much-needed boon for Puerto Rico’s economy which has been devastated by H ...Read more |
| August 14, 2020 | August to Test Limits of Renters, Small Business Landlords | As the rental crisis worsens and the coronavirus rages -- and federal unemployment checks phased out -- renting workers and small business landlords are both finding themselves without income or fe ...Read more |
| December 3, 2020 | Washington Insiders Took Full Advantage of PPP Loan Program | Federal efforts to bail out small businesses have done a lot of good. But is everyone receiving funds actually a small business? We are closer to answers now that the Treasury Department ...Read more |
| August 22, 2020 | Team Biden Releases Plan For Women Owned Businesses | Presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden released a plan in late July entitled “The Biden Agenda for Women.” It contains, among other agenda points, a plan to “improve econo ...Read more |