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An owner of Mac’s Public House in Grant City, New York, was arrested for violating state and city coronavirus rules by serving diners indoors.

Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont (D) has issued an executive order, to take effect Thanksgiving Day, that sets a fine of $10,000 for businesses that violate his Chinese coronavirus restrictions.

A Tuscan group representing small and medium-sized enterprises has threatened the government with a tax strike if businesses are forced to close due to Wuhan coronavirus lockdown measures.

Reform Party leader Nigel Farage warned that the UK is heading towards “mass business bankruptcies” and “massive unemployment”, while Jeff Bezos and Amazon reap the rewards of Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s second national lockdown. During the Chinese coronavirus pandemic, Amazon

At a ‘Stop the New Normal’ protest in London on Saturday, thousands of Britons demonstrated against the British government’s China virus restrictions, including one woman who claimed the lockdowns have destroyed her business. In a message to Prime Minister Boris

Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden said at a town hall Thursday in Philadelphia that President Donald Trump could have kept schools and businesses open if he passed some kind of relief.

Small business optimism hit its highest level since January.

The United States Chamber of Commerce’s top political strategist has resigned from the business group after its endorsement of 23 House Democrats in swing districts across the country.

The United States Chamber of Commerce is lobbying against legislation by House Democrats that they recently endorsed against Republican challengers.

An anonymous donor gave $250,000 to a rent relief program for New Jersey small business owners.

Former Nevada State GOP chairman Amy Tarkanian has raised over $220,000 for Erica Kious, the owner of the salon Nancy Pelosi attended Monday.

A leftwing author defends looting to NPR as a means to provide rioters with “an imaginative sense of freedom and pleasure.”

San Francisco landlords are starting to panic about small businesses being out of work due to the coronavirus.

By maintaining expanded unemployment benefits through 2013, the Obama administration delayed the national economic recovery from the Great Recession in 2009. A National Bureau of Economic Research study concludes that 1.8 million additional jobs were created in 2014 once the benefit was finally cut.

Sen. Marco Rubio called on AG Barr to “immediately review” Planned Parenthood affiliates’ acquisition of federal funds through the PPP.

A Florida man surprised several businesses struggling due to the coronavirus pandemic with checks to help them stay afloat.

The National Bureau of Economic Research issued a study that shows the coronavirus lockdown has devastated minority-owned businesses.

Alfredo Ortiz of Job Creators Network writes for FOXBusiness that – as tragic as the death of George Floyd, the subsequent protests, lootings, and riots may be – in the wake of the economic shutdown from the pandemic, it is more important than ever to revitalize the small businesses that drive the economy. 

Some business owners are having difficulty “reopening” because their employees would rather collect funds through the Cares Act PPP.

Sen. Cotton led colleagues in a letter to Attorney General Barr calling for an investigation into $80 million in PPP loans Planned Parenthood applied for and received.

Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont (D) said Monday he was pulling back hair salons and barbershops from reopening in the state on Wednesday, May 20, in order to align with Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo (D).

Gov. Ned Lamont (D) said he wants to “avoid” having people from out of state travel into Connecticut when the state reopens on May 20.

The Michigan Attorney General attacked 77-year-old Owosso barber Karl Manke on Wednesday, saying he is “not a patriot” for ignoring Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s shutdown order.

American businesses can reopen safely using “strategic testing, tracing, and smart business innovations,” writes Alfredo Ortiz, the president of the Jobs Creators Network, and Gov. Jeff Colyer, MD, a practicing physician who served as the governor of Kansas.

Physician and Rep. Gregory Murphy said on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily that “draconian” lockdowns are no longer needed in many places.

A Michigan law firm filed a lawsuit Tuesday against Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and Michigan Department of Health and Human Services Director Robert Gordon on behalf of five small business clients regarding the limits of the state’s constitutional power.

Gov. Ned Lamont (D) made a point Monday of asserting states such as Georgia and Oklahoma are opening up businesses “prematurely” and that Connecticut residents would have to get accustomed to social distancing as part of a “new normal.”

The Labor Department announced today that 5.2 million Americans filed for unemployment benefits last week, bringing the total over the last four weeks to 22 million — or 14 percent of the people employed prior to this crisis.

Thousands of protesters were on the streets of Lansing, Michigan, to call for the state to reopen, incuding “essential” small businesses.

A vast majority of small businesses across America are suffering a “devastating impact” of the shutdown of much of the U.S. economy in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak, a poll revealed.

Rep. Thomas Massie said Nancy Pelosi should allow a remote vote on the next coronavirus relief measure in lieu of an in-person roll call vote.

Hundreds of community banks across America are bypassing big banks on Wall Street to fuel the economic rescue of the nation’s economy, steering more than $4 billion in loans to small businesses across the country.

A Michigan community stepped up to the plate when its members bought $2,000 in gift cards to support the Kalamazoo Downtown Partnership.

The Trump administration continued its rapid response to the coronavirus crisis by announcing this week that small businesses and individuals can delay federal tax payments for 90 days.

A property owner in Jonesboro, Arkansas, is giving his restaurant tenants some much needed relief during the Chinese coronavirus outbreak.

Marisa Schultz writes Job Creators Network president Alfredo Ortiz, speaking for small business owners, says people are thrilled with the Trump administration’s decision to defer tax payments up to 90 days. Such a program could spell the difference between staying in business during the coronavirus pandemic or closing up shop.