WASHINGTON, D.C. – This weekend marked a number of hundred-day milestones from the Trump administration’s failed response in March to the COVID-19 pandemic. Just over one hundred days later, student borrowers and working Americans are continuing to…
Read moreWASHINGTON, D.C. – Amid the public health crisis surrounding COVID-19, an illness that targets the lungs, the Trump administration gave $876,515 of Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) assistance to Healthier…
Read moreWASHINGTON, D.C. – The Trump administration begrudgingly released partial information on loan recipients of the Small Business Administration’s (SBA) Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), after months of growing public pressure to disclose who received funds and how taxpayer…
Read moreWASHINGTON, D.C. – One hundred days ago today, President Trump misled the public about when it would be safe to reopen the U.S. economy, calling for an April 12th reopening despite experts’…
Read moreWASHINGTON, D.C. – The unemployment rate remains at over 11% and the U.S. economy is still on edge this week as over 1.4 million more Americans filed for unemployment insurance.
Read moreWASHINGTON, D.C. – One hundred days ago today, the United States surpassed 50,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 500 deaths. Just days later, the U.S. would officially become the country with the most COVID-19 infections.
Read moreKEI: “While heavily redacted, the contracts shed considerable light on the extent to which the federal government has limited or eliminated altogether its rights”…
Read moreWASHINGTON, D.C. – Last night, the U.S. Senate passed a measure to extend the application deadline for Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans to August 8th — a move that provides five more weeks for businesses to get…
Read moreRHETORIC: In a House Financial Services Committee hearing today, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said “we have full transparency” with regard to recipients of the SBA’s Paycheck Protection Program…
Read moreWASHINGTON, D.C. – Trump Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin left Tuesday’s House Financial Services Committee hearing without adequately answering key questions regarding the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) disproportionately leaving minority-owned small…
Read moreWASHINGTON, D.C. – The Trump SBA Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) is set to expire today after three chaotic months of mismanagement that allowed hundreds of thousands of small businesses to shutter while wealthy…
Read moreWASHINGTON, D.C. – The Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) is set to expire at close of business today with a remaining $140 billion of assistance still unclaimed as many small businesses struggle to…
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