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NEW YORK AP 鈥?A House committee heard experts and leaders testify Thursday on the nation small business economy amid the COVID-19 pandemic.Watch the hearing in the player above.As the U. stanley cup S. economy undergoes an unev stanley cup en recovery from the virus pandemic, many small business owners face a tough decision on whether and when to take on employees.For many owners, its a question of how comfortable customers will feel about gathering in places like restaurants, stores and gyms. Retailers dont know yet how much business theyve permanently lost to online competitors. For owners starting over, its too soon to know if their brand-new companies will be successful enough to take on employees.Small businesses accounted for 47 percent of employment at U.S. companies, according to the most recent business census, in 2017. When payroll company ADP reported the pandemic forced the loss of 19 million jobs at its business customers in April, more than 10 million of those workers, or 52 percent, were let go b stanley cup y companies with fewer than 500 workers.Since then, small businesses have added about 6.2 million jobs, the most recent ADP data show.A new $284 billion round of PPP funding could give small business hiring a boost, although owners will have more leeway to spend the money on rent, marketing and other expenses than they did in earlier rounds.Through Sunday, the SBA approved more than 891,000 loans in the new round, totaling nearly $73 billion. More than two-thirds of the loans were for Rfqf WATCH: Buttigieg celebrates strong New Hampshire finish
MILAN AP 鈥?Youth climate activists Vanessa Nakate and Greta Thunberg chastised global leaders Tuesday for failing to meet funding pledges to help poor nations adapt to a warming Earth and for delivering too much blah blah blah as climate change wreaks havoc around the world.They even cast doubt on the intentions behind a youth climate gathering where they were speaking in Milan.Four hundred climate activists from 180 countries were invited to Italys financial capital for a stanley cup three-day Youth4Climate summit that will send its recommendations to a major United Nations climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, that begins on Oct. 31. But participants are demanding more accountability from leaders and a bigger official role for young people. They invite cherry-picked young people to pretend they are listening to us, Thunberg said. But they are not. They are clearly not listening to us. Just look at the numbers. Emissions are still rising. The science doesnt lie. Leaders like to say, We can do it. They obviously dont mean it. But we do, the Swedish activist said.Nakate, a 24-year-old activist from Uganda, said pledges of 100 billion euros $117 billion a year to help countries particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change have not materialized, even as wildfires in California and Greece and fl stanley cup oods in Germany and Bel stanley cup gium show that loss and damage is now possible everywhere. In fact, funds were promised by 2020, and we are still waiting, she said. No more empty c |
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