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A new system of bundling and reselling small-business loans is funneling millions to companies owned by women, people of color, immigrants and others who are often excluded from the financial system. Community development financial institutions - known as CDFIs - focus on small loans of $5 to $250,000 sometimes even if the business has not started turning a profit. Brett Simmons, managing director at Scale Link, said the nonprofit buys loans from CDFIs and bundles them for larger banks looking to meet requirements under the Community Reinvestment Act. .
About one in three Indiana workers now works remotely, according to the Center for Business and Economic Research at Ball State University, and some companies are growing frustrated with those who refuse to come back to the office. Some businesses are offering incentives such as a relaxed dress code, onsite dry-cleaning service, or free meals. But workers are not biting; not even for a hybrid schedule. .
Washington state corrections workers are calling on the state to keep their word and deliver on pandemic-related bonuses. More than 400 union members of the Washington Federation of State Employees who work at the Department of Corrections say they ve been informed they won t get a $1,000 Recognition and Retention Lump Sum payment negotiated in their latest contracts. Jim Furchert, community corrections officer for the Washington State Department of Corrections and a union steward for the Washington Federation of State Employees, said the payments are needed. .
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