by LaTesha Harris | Aug 20, 2020 | Business, Featured
Faith Ellis is only farming six of the 85 acres on her New Boston, Texas farm – one of eight Black-owned operations left in Bowie County – because of the coronavirus pandemic. Ellis, a disabled farmer, and her husband can’t afford workers to cross-fence, prepare soil,...
by Xurui Tan | Aug 11, 2020 | Business, Featured
Much more needs to be done to protect consumers in the face of the coronavirus pandemic, a representative of a New York-based advocacy group says. “People start to make tough decisions and that makes them more vulnerable to unfair practices and then encourages the...
by Amy Sokolow | Jul 16, 2020 | Business, Featured
The states and federal government have fallen behind in updating decades-old technology and need to upgrade quickly to better serve the public, experts say, a point underscored by reports that millions of jobless Americans still haven’t received unemployment checks....
by Henry Ren | Jul 15, 2020 | Business, Featured
More U.S. tech startups’ operations are likely to expand to Canada as the Trump administration’s recent restrictions on H-1B visas compound the difficulty of hiring skilled engineers, venture capitalists and entrepreneurs say. In late June, the administration barred...
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by Nicole Girten | Jul 1, 2020 | Business
Democrats and Republicans reached a rare consensus Wednesday: The federal government is moving too slowly in providing loans to companies struggling with the pandemic. A federal loan program for small businesses has denied 48 percent of applicants, leaving 2.5 million...
by Anne Snabes | Apr 20, 2020 | Business, Featured
The head of the Office of Foreign Assets Control said Friday she wants to ensure that economic sanctions against foreign countries do not impede U.S. humanitarian relief for the COVID-19 pandemic, but the former director of the agency said the business community wants...
