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HR Dive: HR News and Analysis | April 13, 2020

Members of the U.S. small business community say they are highly concerned about the financial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, but millennial or Gen X business owners are particularly hopeful they will get the help they need to outlive the crisis, according to research released April 3. The MetLife & U.S. Chamber of Commerce Small Business Index includes a survey of about 500 U.S. small business owners conducted between March 25-28 gauging their perception of the economy. recent One i...

ZDNet | February 21, 2020

PayPal has provided AU$500 million to 7,000 businesses in Australia since it launched a working capital offering less than five years ago alongside Citi. "We can see that there is an ongoing demand for alternative finance solutions to support small businesses and help them thrive," PayPal said in its submission [PDF] to the Select Committee on Financial Technology and Regulatory Technology. PayPal considers "information asymmetries" having previously been a "tremendous&q...

PR Newswire | February 24, 2020

Today, Nav, a service that gives business owners the fastest, easiest and most trusted path to financing, revealed Philip Klayman, Founder of Three Tree Coffee, as the grand prize winner of the company's quarterly Small Business Grant. Three Tree Coffee, a mission-driven coffee shop that opened in Statesboro, Ga., in 2015, had humble beginnings with a husband and wife team roasting coffee beans out in their backyard. Eventually, the operation grew to a bricks-and-mortar establishment with an...

ABC News | March 18, 2020

Luis Rivera and his family have run their neighborhood rotisserie chicken joint in downtown New York City for nearly five decades, staying open through everything from 9/11 to Superstorm Sandy, but he said he's never seen anything like the coronavirus pandemic. Rivera is among a handful of small business owners -- many of whom already operate on razor-thin margins -- who say they are entering times of unprecedented uncertainty. Despite pledges from the government and private sector, many say...