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One year after Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations surged through Los Angeles County, many Latino businesses are still struggling to recover the customers, revenue and sense of security they lost. A UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute (LPPI) report found that 989 formal businesses within a half-mile of nine immigration enforcement...
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Levi Sumagaysay CalMatters Los titulares de la tarjeta verde de residencia ya no pueden optar a préstamos de la Administración de Pequeñas Empresas, lo que elimina una fuente de financiación de larga data para los inmigrantes y, según los defensores, desalentará la creación de empleo y perjudicará la economía....
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Levi Sumagaysay CalMatters Green-card holders no longer qualify for loans from the Small Business Administration, eliminating a longtime source of financing for immigrants that advocates say will discourage job creation and harm the economy. The SBA limited access to its loans to U.S. citizens and nationals only starting in...
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Small businesses drive California’s economy, and the data is now in from the first year of a program that offers free business coaching. The SCALE program – which stands for “success, capital, access and leadership for entrepreneurs” – is a statewide initiative created by the California Office of the...
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Levi Sumagaysay CalMatters Las pequeñas empresas de California (empleadores de más de la mitad de la fuerza laboral del estado) se enfrentan a lo que algunos propietarios, expertos y defensores dicen que podrían ser inmensas consecuencias negativas de la serie de órdenes ejecutivas del presidente Donald Trump. La congelación...
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Levi Sumagaysay CalMatters California’s small businesses — employers to more than half the state’s workforce — are staring down what some owners, experts and advocates say could be immense negative consequences from President Donald Trump’s slew of executive orders. Trump’s embattled federal funding freeze and anti-diversity push have seeded...
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Selen Ozturk Ethnic Media Services While COVID relief grants have phased down nationwide since the end of the federal health emergency declaration, California has announced a new one. Through June 30, small nonprofits and businesses with 26 to 49 employees in 2021 or 2022, and who paid COVID sick...
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The County of Santa Clara SANTA CLARA COUNTY, CALIF. — The County of Santa Clara Household Hazardous Waste Program is expanding access to a service that provides a simple and cost-effective way for small businesses to dispose of hazardous waste. The Very Small Quantity Generator (VSQG) disposal program is a drop-off...
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Small business entrepreneurs in California have new access to billions of dollars’ worth of funding to be offered with an explicit eye toward reaching communities too often shortchanged by the financial sector in the past. At a press conference Sept. 20, the U.S. Treasury Department announced having approved California’s application for...
One year after Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations surged through Los Angeles County, many Latino businesses are still struggling to recover the customers, revenue and sense of security they lost. A UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute (LPPI) report found that 989 formal businesses within a half-mile of nine immigration enforcement...
Levi Sumagaysay CalMatters Los titulares de la tarjeta verde de residencia ya no pueden optar a préstamos de la Administración de Pequeñas Empresas, lo que elimina una fuente de financiación de larga data para los inmigrantes y, según los defensores, desalentará la creación de empleo y perjudicará la economía....
Levi Sumagaysay CalMatters Green-card holders no longer qualify for loans from the Small Business Administration, eliminating a longtime source of financing for immigrants that advocates say will discourage job creation and harm the economy. The SBA limited access to its loans to U.S. citizens and nationals only starting in...
Small businesses drive California’s economy, and the data is now in from the first year of a program that offers free business coaching. The SCALE program – which stands for “success, capital, access and leadership for entrepreneurs” – is a statewide initiative created by the California Office of the...
Levi Sumagaysay CalMatters Las pequeñas empresas de California (empleadores de más de la mitad de la fuerza laboral del estado) se enfrentan a lo que algunos propietarios, expertos y defensores dicen que podrían ser inmensas consecuencias negativas de la serie de órdenes ejecutivas del presidente Donald Trump. La congelación...
Levi Sumagaysay CalMatters California’s small businesses — employers to more than half the state’s workforce — are staring down what some owners, experts and advocates say could be immense negative consequences from President Donald Trump’s slew of executive orders. Trump’s embattled federal funding freeze and anti-diversity push have seeded...
Selen Ozturk Ethnic Media Services While COVID relief grants have phased down nationwide since the end of the federal health emergency declaration, California has announced a new one. Through June 30, small nonprofits and businesses with 26 to 49 employees in 2021 or 2022, and who paid COVID sick...
The County of Santa Clara SANTA CLARA COUNTY, CALIF. — The County of Santa Clara Household Hazardous Waste Program is expanding access to a service that provides a simple and cost-effective way for small businesses to dispose of hazardous waste. The Very Small Quantity Generator (VSQG) disposal program is a drop-off...
Small business entrepreneurs in California have new access to billions of dollars’ worth of funding to be offered with an explicit eye toward reaching communities too often shortchanged by the financial sector in the past. At a press conference Sept. 20, the U.S. Treasury Department announced having approved California’s application for...