An organization plans to bike about 375 miles to raise money to help Black-owned businesses and nonprofits. Black Leaders Detroit hosts the seven-day ride from Detroit to Mackinaw City called the BLD: Ride for Equity. The group plans to leave from Detroit at 8 a.m. Sunday. “Black leadership in Detroit still not having the same level of access
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Ohio businesses are not out of the woods from the pandemic. Small business owners are facing inflation, a worker shortage, and the lingering effects of shutdowns and capacity limitations. But that doesn’t seem to be of concern to Ohio’s leaders. Gov. Mike DeWine has done little to aid struggling entrepreneurs. Instead, he’s focused on failed
The state’s best-known corporate incentive program, the Texas Enterprise Fund, got its usual vote of confidence last month. Lawmakers in Austin approved another $100 million for the next two years, allocating roughly the same amount to the so-called deal-closing fund as in recent legislative sessions. That’s welcome news in Dallas-Fort Worth, where projects over the
As the country inches to some sense of normalcy, small businesses — especially minority-owned companies — are still struggling to recover from the pandemic’s financial gut punch. Shutdowns during the early days of the pandemic and keeping pace with public health orders wreaked havoc on mom-and-pop businesses’ bottom line. Even as businesses open up, mask restrictions loosen
SPOKANE — What started as a bold plan to save small businesses by a federal agency best known for disaster loans has turned into a massive $780 billion bailout that local bankers believe was necessary to prevent more catastrophic economic damage from the coronavirus pandemic. The U.S. Small Business Administration’s officials on Wednesday announced the
The Metaverse has been become one of the biggest buzzwords in the blockchain and crypto, as it promises to provide a more immersive, interactive and collaborative experience than what the internet has accomplished to date. This promise of a new world has huge enterprises like Meta (formally known as Facebook) investing huge sums in the