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| December 24, 2020 | Minority Businesses Stand to Benefit From New PPP Rules, Pilot Program | In addition to earmarks meant to help minority businesses secure forgivable loans, new legislation passed by Congress creates a pilot program to help foster small businesses owners around historica ...Read more |
| December 23, 2020 | Congress Votes to Fund the Space Force as Contracting Opportunities Arise | On Monday, the US Congress passed its annual omnibus bill, giving the new Space Force military branch $15.2 billion dollars in funding. As the Space Force continues to take shape, we can expect ne ...Read more |
| December 21, 2020 | What Your Small Business Needs to Know About the New Stimulus Package | Congress is poised to pass a 5,593-page economic stimulus bill. As Contractor News continues to examine the massive document, we wanted to present some highlights from the bill pertaining to small ...Read more |
| December 18, 2020 | One in Six US Restaurants Have Closed Down — Moms-and-Pops Suffer Much Worse than Chains | The US restaurant industry is undergoing an earthquake. Rather than small restaurants surviving through a hibernation (or a partial hibernation) during corona — backed by unprecedented amounts of ...Read more |
| December 9, 2020 | US Cuts Tariffs on Exceptionally Expensive Canadian Lumber in Half | The U.S. Commerce Department seems to have followed the age-old adage “measure twice, cut once” in its decision earlier this month to reduce tariffs on Canadian lumber from 20 percent to 9 perc ...Read more |
| December 1, 2020 | Rep. Hollingsworth (R-Indiana) Introduces VETs Act to Help Veteran-Owned Businesses Thrive | On Veterans Day, U.S. Representative Trey Hollingsworth (R-Indiana) introduced the Veteran Entrepreneurial Talents Act (VETs). The VETs Act raises the federal government contracting goal for servi ...Read more |
| December 4, 2020 | Congress Weighs Watered-Down Stimulus, as New PPP Failures Revealed | This week, new flaws in the Payment Protection Program (PPP) have come to light thanks to a lawsuit forcing the Small Business Administration (SBA) to release troves of data on the program. Meanwhi ...Read more |
| December 3, 2020 | Washington Insiders Took Full Advantage of PPP Loan Program | Federal efforts to bail out small businesses have done a lot of good. But is everyone receiving funds actually a small business? We are closer to answers now that the Treasury Department ...Read more |
| October 3, 2020 | Joe Biden’s $400 Billion Procurement Plan | President-elect Joe Biden has just started rolling out announcements of key positions in his cabinet. While there is still no word on who will lead the Small Business Administration, his campaign m ...Read more |
| August 22, 2020 | Team Biden Releases Plan For Women Owned Businesses | Presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden released a plan in late July entitled “The Biden Agenda for Women.” It contains, among other agenda points, a plan to “improve econo ...Read more |