{"id":15711,"date":"2020-04-06T12:10:20","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T17:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/?p=15711"},"modified":"2020-04-06T10:28:04","modified_gmt":"2020-04-06T15:28:04","slug":"help-for-americas-small-businesses-and-their-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/2020\/04\/06\/help-for-americas-small-businesses-and-their-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Help for America&#8217;s Small Businesses and Their Workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-43192\" title=\"The White House\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/whitehouse-logo-200x136.jpg\" alt=\"The White House\" width=\"200\" height=\"136\"><strong>Washington, D.C.<\/strong> &#8211; \u201cWe want workers to have work, not to become dependent on the unemployment system,\u201d Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia and Small Business Administrator Jovita Carranza write for Fox Business.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSmall businesses often lack the reserves and access to liquidity that large companies can call upon in hard times. The Paycheck Protection Program\u201d\u2014signed by President Trump on March 27th\u2014\u201caddresses this by offering small business loans of up to $10 million . . . Critically, the loans are forgivable if the business retains and continues paying its workers for eight weeks.\u201d <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/whitehouse.us19.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=4da4828d48b4efa4fc1138955&amp;id=7f80baf817&amp;e=6b36942091\" >Click here to read more.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/West-Wing.jpg\"  class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-478008\" title=\"The White House - West Wing. (Official White House Photo)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/West-Wing-480x240.jpg\" alt=\"The White House - West Wing. (Official White House Photo)\" width=\"480\" height=\"240\"><\/a><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have great patriots working across this country who continue to support our food supply chain. From the production of equipment, feed and fertilizer; to the farmer who puts the seed in the ground; to the packers, processors and truckers who bring that food to the market; to the grocers getting that food to consumers, America\u2019s food supply is safe and secure,\u201d Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue writes for <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/whitehouse.us19.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=4da4828d48b4efa4fc1138955&amp;id=d0bf6f408c&amp;e=6b36942091\" >Fox News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor decades, Americans have rallied behind their president in time of crisis, so it\u2019s no mystery that President Trump\u2019s approval ratings are up. Except, that is, to anti-Trump obsessives \u2014 including much of the media. \u2018Who Are the Voters Behind Trump\u2019s Higher Approval Rating?\u2019a New York Times headline askedlast week.\u201d Read more from the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/whitehouse.us19.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=4da4828d48b4efa4fc1138955&amp;id=a2028e3b49&amp;e=6b36942091\" >New York Post<\/a> editorial board.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSocial media has given people at home a small glimpse into the lives of nurses and doctors during this time. Many health care workers have showed the world what they\u2019re doing when they\u2019re not working: They\u2019re praying,\u201d Caitlin O\u2019Kane writes for <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/whitehouse.us19.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=4da4828d48b4efa4fc1138955&amp;id=6f4c8f7fc9&amp;e=6b36942091\" >CBS News<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, D.C. &#8211; \u201cWe want workers to have work, not to become dependent on the unemployment system,\u201d Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia and Small Business Administrator Jovita Carranza write for Fox Business. \u201cSmall businesses often lack the reserves and access to liquidity that large companies can call upon in hard times. The Paycheck Protection Program\u201d\u2014signed by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[404,3309,12884,185,5129,3338],"class_list":["post-15711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","tag-food","tag-health-care","tag-paycheck-protection-program","tag-small-business","tag-social-media","tag-washington-d-c"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15712,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15711\/revisions\/15712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}