Pedestrian traffic is slowly returning to Brattle Street and Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts, but small local businesses still suffer from prolonged blockage of the coronavirus. Lane Turner / The Boston Globe via Getty Images EIDL loans The EIDL Advance program, created by the CARES Act, awarded emergency grants to …
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A tourist walks through Terminal 3 of the Dubai airport in the United Arab Emirates on July 8, 2020, as the country reopened its doors to international visitors in hopes of reviving its tourism industry after a nearly four-month shutdown. Giuseppe Cacace | AFP | fake pictures The International Monetary …
Read More »New security law begins to break Hong Kong’s pro-democracy economy
HONG KONG (Reuters) – As soon as Hong Kong’s new national security law went into effect last week, Ivan Ng removed all protest-themed paintings, posters and flags from the list of items for sale at his print shop. Onestep. FILE PHOTO: Memo documents with protest slogans are seen outside a …
Read More »Nearly 6,300 Texas companies received PPP loans of more than $ 1 million
Nearly 6,300 Texas-based companies received loans from the federal government valued at more than $ 1 million this spring, representing a significant injection of government money into the state as the federal government struggled to keep the economy afloat. Within that sum, nearly 400 Texas companies received loans in the …
Read More »Trudeau rejects White House invitation amid pandemic
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau declined an invitation from the White House to celebrate the new regional free trade agreement in Washington with U By ROB GILLIES Associated Press July 6, 2020 3:54 PM 2 min read Share on FacebookShare on TwitterEmail this article TORONTO – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau …
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