Quite a lot has been going on:
Third of NYC small businesses may never reopen, report says | Fox Business
Airlines fear business travel bonanza is gone for good - The Boston Globe
US airlines hammered by the catastrophic loss of passengers during the pandemic are confronting a once-unthinkable scenario: that this crisis will obliterate much of the corporate flying they've relied on for decades to prop up profits.
"It is likely that business travel will never return to pre-COVID levels," said Adam Pilarski, senior vice president at Avitas, an aviation consultant. "It is one of those unfortunate cases where the industry will be permanently impaired and what we lost now is gone, never to come back."
Howard County RISE Business Relief Grant Program Helping Businesses Impacted By COVID-19 –
COLUMBIA, Md. (WJZ) — Howard County has allocated millions of dollars to help small businesses impacted by the coronavirus pandemic.
County officials have allocated $5.7 million dollars in CARES Act funding toward the new HoCo RISE business relief grant program, aimed at providing financial assistance to businesses in targeted sectors that have been most impacted by the coronavirus.
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“Unlike other local grant programs in our region that have been based on a first-come, first-serve model for any businesses where the demand dramatically exceeds the funds, our Howard County grants have specific targets that are the smallest of the small main street type of businesses,” County Executive Calvin Ball said.
Many things are taking place:
Seattle adopts spending plan for new payroll tax on big business - GeekWire
A new tax on Seattle's highest-paying businesses will fund a variety of pandemic-related relief programs for renters, immigrants, refugees, and small businesses this year under a spending plan passed by the City Council on Monday.
The spending plan provides the most detail to-date on how Seattle's new payroll tax will be used. The legislation, passed earlier this month , establishes a tiered tax on the payrolls of top salaries at companies that pay more than $7 million annually to employees.
Pandemic on track to crush NYC economy, says influential business group - MarketWatch
As many as one-third of New York City's small businesses fold; tens of billions of dollars are lost in city revenue; poverty and unemployment rise, crushing already strained affordable housing; and both the tourism and nonprofit funds that fuel arts and culture dry up.
That's the bleak future the five boroughs could be headed to, according to an exhaustive report the Partnership for New York, an influential business group, released Monday. The organization, which assembled the 67-page report with the help of 14 global consulting firms, is pushing for immediate private-public partnerships to avoid a worst-case scenario.
Business Owners React to Chicago’s Plan to Retighten Some Coronavirus Restrictions –
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Monday pulled back the reigns of reopening, impacting bars, restaurants, gyms and some personal services. NBC 5’s Kate Chappell reports.
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New guidelines were announced Monday that impact bars, restaurants, salons and gyms. The mayor's office says the precautionary move is in response to a recent increase in community cases of the virus.
The reinstatement of certain restrictions will go into effect Friday, July 24 at 12:01 a.m., in order to allow businesses time to prepare.
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