SME News
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2022-03-03
Record inflation now even harder for small businesses
SAN ANTONIO – As if last year wasn’t already hard enough on small businesses during the pandemic, inflation has jumped to 7.5% from 6.2% last November, the highest level in 40 years. Contending with higher costs and ofte...
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2022-03-02
Half of SME workers Have Ambitions to Start Their Own Business
March 2022: Finding and retaining staff has never been tougher for small and medium sized firms and now many face the ‘Great Resignation’ threat of staff upping and leaving to create their own businesses. A recent survey by Purbeck P...
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2022-03-02
Seattle program helps small businesses apply for recovery loans as COVID enters next phase
SEATTLE - As the state moves to put the COVID-19 pandemic in the rearview mirror, Seattle’s economic office has prepared $8 million in loans for businesses to start getting back on their feet. Mayor Bruce Harrel...
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2022-03-02
Unforgiven: Two years later, small businesses still waiting for promised PPP loan forgiveness
(Tribune News Service) — After COVID-19 shutdowns put Miami hairdresser Vicki LeMaster out of work, a friend recommended that she apply for a Paycheck Protection Program loan through the online lender Kabbage. “I didn’t want a lo...
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2022-03-01
Survey: SMEs struggling to find funding and time to deliver sustainability ambitions
A survey of more than 2,000 UK-based small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) has found that most are feeling pressure to improve their sustainability credentials, but one-third believe it will be too expensive for them to take action this year. C...