Oregon Worker Relief Fund to distribute $10 million to immigrant-owned small businesses
Updated Mar 04, 2021;
A state fund set up last year to help workers from immigrant communities will distribute $10 million to immigrant-owned small businesses across Oregon.
Organizers of the Oregon Worker Relief Fund announced Thursday that they had established a new program, the Oregon Small Enterprise Fund, to support small business owners who have been impacted by the coronavirus pandemic but have been unable to secure aid through federal programs.
The Oregon Legislature’s Emergency Board allocated $46 million in January to set up the new fund and provide ongoing support to the Oregon Worker Relief Fund.
Business Oregon, the state’s economic development agency, will award grants of up to $100,000 per business tenant for a maximum of $3 million going to each commercial landlord.
Freeze has taken huge toll on agriculture in Valley
Cayla Harris, San Antonio Express-News
March 1, 2021
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Mani Skaria, founder and CEO of U.S. Citrus, checks out damage done to W. Murcott mandarins at his farm in Hargill, Texas, Feb. 23.Jerry Lara /San Antonio Express-NewsShow MoreShow Less
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Azucena Izaguirre salvages Mexican thornless lime plants at U.S. Citrus in Hargill, Texas, Feb. 22. Crops throughout the Rio Grande Valley sustained widespread damage due to the recent freeze.Jerry Lara /San Antonio Express-NewsShow MoreShow Less
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Mani Skaria has been through this before.
When the temperatures dropped below freezing this month, it was impossible not to think back to the 1989 freeze that wiped out more than 20,000 acres of citrus. He had seen it firsthand, just a year after he moved to the Rio Grande Valley to work as a faculty member at the Texas A&M Citrus Center.
ERCOT board addresses winter storm outages in Wednesday morning meeting (Source: (Gráfico de ERCOT)) By KLTV Digital Media Staff | February 24, 2021 at 9:38 AM CST - Updated February 24 at 5:43 PM
AUSTIN, Texas (KLTV/KTRE) - ERCOT President and CEO Bill Magness will present on the events that occurred during the extreme cold weather event during this morningâs Urgent Board of Directors meeting, which begins at 10 a.m.
You can watch the meeting here.
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