
In the crescendo of the pandemic, as businesses struggled to stay afloat despite tough economic times, most hoped the federal relief packages—the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), in particular—would come to their rescue. But that wasn’t the case, according to KB and Katie Brown’s print business in Minneapolis. Even after applying with three lenders, they never received any Coronavirus relief loans disbursed between April and August. “It just doesn’t seem like the program was built to support small businesses,” lamented KB Brown, who is witnessing small companies in his Black-dominated and low-income communities suffer to their closure. “It’s bullshit.” Congress’s instructions […]
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