Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s other company, payment processing service Square, is withholding between 20 and 30 percent of the money that merchants receive from customers. One small business owner commented: “It may not be the coronavirus that puts us out of business but actually the greed of Square that breaks the camel’s back.”
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer got a win in court against 77-year-old barber Karl Manke on Thursday, but he vowed to continue operating his business she deemed “nonessential.”
New York City’s oldest gun store, the John Jovino Gun Shop, is closing down after its owner said he can no longer pay rent without customers.
A church in Goodlettsville, Tennessee, is helping small businesses get back on their feet during the coronavirus pandemic.
Pennsylvania officials suddenly revoked a number of business waivers after critics demanded transparency from Gov. Tom Wolf (D) regarding the criteria used in granting exemptions.
Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) on Thursday identified a nail salon as the first instance of community spread of the Chinese coronavirus in the state.
Some Pennsylvania business owners are reopening their businesses in defiance of Gov. Tom Wolf’s stay-at-home orders, citing the need to save their livelihoods.
Alfredo Ortiz writes in RealClear Politics about the terrible cost of the coronavirus pandemic and shutdown to small businesses and calls for Communist China, which is responsible for it, to compensate Americans for damages they have sustained:
Iowa Senate Democrat candidate Theresa Greenfield supported evicting local small businesses in favor of the multinational firm Aldi.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton recently stated that “a crisis tends to strip away façades and reveal who we are and what we believe. At best, we become stronger as communities and a nation; at worst, we slip into fear and oppression.”
Treasury spokeswoman Monica Crowley said that the Paycheck Protection Program was on track to hit the administration’s target to cover half the U.S. workforce.
Neighbors in Fisher Island, Florida, rejected a loan through the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) on Friday that was meant to help small businesses.
The public health crisis is crushing America’s small business community. Economic disruption sparked by government restrictions and consumer precautions have left entrepreneurs grasping for a financial lifeline. Fortunately, the Trump administration and Congress have extended one.
Italy’s mafia is seeking to profit from the Chinese coronavirus pandemic by soliciting small businesses and poor families that are facing financial ruin over the virus, prosecutors told Reuters.
A Pennsylvania consignment store owner who had to lay off her employees as a result of the economic shutdown wondered why big box retailers are able to sell children’s clothes when she was forced to shut down.
The Shake Shack restaurant chain will return its government loan meant to help small businesses through the Chinese coronavirus pandemic, the company said Monday.
New Mexico Republican Party Chairman Steve Pearce says Democrats are calling critics of their close-small-businesses strategy for the Chinese coronavirus crisis a “death cult,” though their agenda puts more Americans at risk.
Small businesses will die if Minnesota’s shutdown does not end soon, a protester outside Gov. Tim Walz’s (D) residence in St. Paul said Friday.
The well has run dry on the small business loans aimed at saving jobs during the crisis.
The payroll protection program for small businesses is so popular that it is in danger of running out of funding.
Even before the millions of layoffs and widespread lockdowns, optimism collapsed among America’s small business owners.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce reported Friday that one in four small businesses had closed temporarily due to the coronavirus outbreak — but more than half remained optimistic about an eventual recovery.
Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY) said during an appearance on Breitbart News Saturday that the Democrats’ delay of the economic relief package hurt small businesses in his own district, which is being ravaged by the coronavirus.
Elaine Parker of Job Creators writes in Fox Business about how the legislative stimulus package passed on Friday helps small business – the backbone of the U.S. economy, employing nearly half the country’s workforce – with $349 billion in forgivable small business loans.
Private equity firms are reportedly using the Chinese coronavirus pandemic as an opportunity to cheaply buy up businesses, which will have a crippling impact on America’s small business owners.
Facebook announced this week that it will award $100 million in grants and ad credits to small businesses. The $100 million grant is designed to help small businesses recover from the ongoing Wuhan coronavirus crisis.
NFIB released the results of a survey on Friday that shows most American small businesses have not been impacted by coronavirus.
Job Creators Network (JCN) ran a full-page ad in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and the New York Post on Friday with the message, “Small Business is Too Big to Fail.”
Small business owners are feeling more confident about the economy and their businesses at the start of 2020.
After a brief dip at the end of last year, small business optimism is rising again on expectations for better sales.
E-commerce giant Amazon is reportedly set to invest $1 billion to bring small businesses online in India in an attempt to assuage critics of the company’s development in the country.
In contrast with the summer months of recession obsession, November saw small business optimism spike upward.
Latino-owned businesses are growing at a record pace thanks to a strong economy, according to a Biz2Credit study.
At least Democrats are on message. The party even launched a campaign this summer in seven battleground states to make the case that the Trump economy is actually bad.
Alfredo Ortiz of Job Creators Network writes in The Hill that this week’s Democrat presidential debates highlighted the internal party civil war between the moderate wing and the socialists.
Alfredo Ortiz writes at FoxBusiness about the upcoming Democrat primary debates with emphasis on the impact on small business of the various contenders’ socialist policies
Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke told BET viewers Saturday of his plan to expand capital for black American communities.
“We have to reject the socialist model,” Trump said, calling for freedom of choice and access to the best health care plans.
Dave Boyer writes in the Washington Times that the formerly muscular National Federation of Independent Business is no longer the player it once was in D.C.
Small business optimism improved in April, with business owners feeling better about the economy, hiring, and earnings.
