LONDON — For Aimée Felone, whose children’s bookstore in London stocks tales with ethnically diverse characters, the Black Lives Matter protests last summer were, in a word, overwhelming.“We had attention […]
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Back to news homeRestaurants Fought for Covid Survival, With Some Tech Helpers
The past year has crushed independent restaurants across the country and brought a reality to their doors: Many were unprepared for a digital world.Unlike other small retailers, restaurateurs could keep […]
China’s First Quarter Growth is Expected to Boom on Paper
Factories are whirring, new apartments are being snapped up and more jobs are up for grabs. When China releases its new economic figures on Friday, they are expected to show […]
Paper Source Files for Bankruptcy, Frustrating Cardmakers
“Hell hath no fury like a stationer scorned.”That was the opening salvo of an Instagram post last week from Lisa Krowinski, founder of Sapling Press, a letterpress design and print […]
Lenders Struggle to Implement Biden’s Changes to P.P.P. Loan Rules
Under the new formula, sole proprietors can get loans based instead on their income before expenses. That opens the program to unprofitable businesses and allows those that did report a […]
Fraud Checks and Errors Slow Small-Business Relief Loans
That caused — or exposed — a cascade of problems. Formatting applications in ways that will pass the agency’s automated vetting has been a challenge for some lenders, and many […]
Hurt by Lockdowns, California’s Small Businesses Push to Recall Newsom
Small businesses across the country have suffered from shutdowns that sometimes seem to flare up as suddenly as surges in the coronavirus itself. Restaurants, gyms, corner stores and spas have […]
PPP Aid to Small Businesses: How Much Did $500 Billion Help?
Anecdotes like Mr. Geismann’s, however, aren’t straightforward to interpret. Perhaps Schuchart and companies like it would have found another way to make ends meet, or would have rehired workers quickly […]
How to Properly Use PR and SEO to Amplify Marketing Results
A business is as good as how it portrays itself. It might have the best product on the market, but how it packages that product determines how it will fare. […]
10 Challenges Biden Faces in Righting the Economy
All presidents come into office vowing to rapidly put into effect an ambitious agenda. But for Joseph R. Biden Jr., the raging coronavirus pandemic and the economic pain it is […]