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With applications for the latest, $284 billion round of the Paycheck Protection Program restarting on Monday, demand is expected to be high among San Diego County small businesses reeling once again from pandemic restrictions on their operations.
The forgivable loans, which provided a lifeline for many small businesses early in the pandemic, are not open to all qualifying firms just yet. The program has been tailored this time to give first-time borrowers and underserved businesses a head start in submitting applications.
But soon most non-publicly traded small businesses with 300 or fewer employees should be able to seek PPP funding, perhaps as early as next week.
However we never forget either how devastating it is when you have little anyway and stand to lose it.
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Covid fears and pressures affected most of the problems we took on, with scammers attempting to profiteer at every turn.
They traded on lockdown anxiety when they knocked on Alan Carter’s door, who was shielding because of cancer, scaring him and his wife about bogus holes in their roof.
Once they spooked the couple into giving permission to investigate they gouged the holes themselves, then demanding vast repair fees, standing over Alan while he tried to transfer the cash.
Brian Collopy (left) and Kieran Collopy at Limerick District Court, where they were both sentenced to eight years in jail
The trial heard that the victim was “in the wrong place at the wrong time” when he was shot on December 8, 2009.
After the verdict was read out Maria left the courtroom with her daughters shouting: “Love you, Kenneth, love you no matter what.”
In 2015, her husband and his brother were under surveillance when they met with Paddy Mitchell – brother of George ‘the Penguin’ Mitchell – in a fast food outlet.
They were overheard discussing a heroin deal.
In December of that year, a drug squad stormed two adjoining houses in St Mary’s Park in Limerick.
The months preceding the presidential election contained endless discussions of the economy, the stock market, taxes and more. This political discourse, however, often only involves topics that affect the most “successful” people among us. These conversations rarely extend to topics such as wealth distribution, workers’ rights, livable wages, or anything that involves those who are deemed “less-successful.” Unfortunately, our country’s fascination with “success” is equivalent to an imposed fascination with wealth.
For a country where the top one percent of the population owns more than 30 percent of the wealth, and the bottom half of the population is left with less than two percent, economic inequality is not addressed nearly enough. While the middle-class shrinks and wealth disparity grows over time, the perceived hopelessness of the situation has left individuals with no choice but to adapt. Instead of acknowledging economic inequality as a solvable issue, America