[COVID-19 Business & Food Systems]
Rep. Velázquez: “Many small businesses across the food system are still in the difficult position of figuring out how to pay rent and survive, while many have shut down forever.”
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Small Business
Rep. Velázquez Surveys Pandemic’s Impact on Food Businesses
Small Business Struggles Don’t Bode Well for Economy
[Black Business\Small Business]
Andi Gray: “Small businesses make up 50 percent of the gross-domestic product and also employ half the workforce. What happens to them determines what happens to the overall economy.”
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NY State, City Lawmakers Propose “Recovery Leases” for Small Businesses
[COVID-19 Small Business Recovery Lease Act]
Assemblymember Niou: “It is long overdue that we put into place relief measures to protect our small businesses that are at risk of closing or laying off employees.”
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Black Businesses struggling from COVID-19, Structural Racism
[Black Business\COVID-19]]
CNBC: “Black small business owners have endured an especially tumultuous few months. They have been hit harder by the coronavirus pandemic, they have received less federal support…”
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Report: Black Congressional Districts got $13 Billion less in PPP Loans
[Black Businesses\PPP Loans]
Kyle Herrig: “The Trump administration failed to support small businesses in communities of color who are disproportionately impacted by this crisis.”
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COVID-19 PPP SMALL BUSINESS LOANS TO U.S. TERRITORIES INEQUITABLE SAY LAWMAKERS
[COVID-19\PPP Loans]
Velázquez: “Small businesses in the five territories are facing the same dire conditions as those in the fifty states.”
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VELAZQUEZ: NEW BI-PARTISAN COVID-19 RELIEF BILL GOOD, MORE MUST BE DONE
[COVID-19 Relief Bill]
Velazquez: “While this bill is a step in the right direction, Congress should immediately get to work on the next relief package.”
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COMMUNITY FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS INVOLVEMENT IN SMALL BUSINESS COVID-19 RELIEF FUNDING IS CRITICAL
[SBA COVID-19 Relief Loan Funding]
Velazquez: “To expand opportunities for women-, minority-, and veteran-owned businesses, we must increase the role of mission-based lenders, those who are deeply embedded in their communities, such as community banks, community development financial institutions, and SBA microloan intermediaries.”
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GOV. CUOMO, SMALL BUSINESSES URGENTLY NEED HELP FROM ALBANY
[COVID-19\Small Business]
Let businesses use some of the money they would have sent to Albany, as sales taxes, to market their new offerings…Every dollar a small business spends on advertising —up to some reasonable limit— would be a dollar saved off that business’s sales tax bill.
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