Vaccines for COVID-19 may have put a light at the end of a tunnel when it comes to the pandemic, but that tunnel is still long, and full of uncertainty for many small businesses.
Millions of jobless people, meanwhile, are on the brink of personal disaster, even as Congress again wrestles â perhaps unsuccessfully â over another round of stimulus.
If coronavirus aid is not extended, many fear the downward domino effect that is likely to have on those still unemployed is ultimately headed straight for the heart of Americaâs small businesses. A Montana Bankers Association survey of small businesses, for example, suggested recently that Montana could permanently lose as many as 20 percent of its small businesses without more aid.
Vaccines for COVID-19 may have put a light at the end of a tunnel when it comes to the pandemic, but that tunnel is still long, and full of uncertainty for many small businesses.
Millions of jobless people, meanwhile, are on the brink of personal disaster, even as Congress again wrestles â perhaps unsuccessfully â over another round of stimulus.
If coronavirus aid is not extended, many fear the downward domino effect that is likely to have on those still unemployed is ultimately headed straight for the heart of Americaâs small businesses. A Montana Bankers Association survey of small businesses, for example, suggested recently that Montana could permanently lose as many as 20 percent of its small businesses without more aid.