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Lawmakers from the Kansas City region are calling on the Trump administration to release the names of companies benefiting from a program meant to provide emergency relief to small businesses during the coronavirus pandemic.
Rep. Sharice Davids, D-Kansas, wrote Thursday Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and Small Business Administration Administrator Jovita Carranza asking them to release a complete list of companies receiving aid through the Paycheck Protection Program.
Local business resource centers discussed how small and women-owned businesses are being impacted by COVID-19 during a question and answer session hosted by U.S. Rep. Sharice Davids.
Rep. Sharice Davids is frustrated with the way small business relief has been slowed in Congress.
Davids is also disappointed in President Trump's lack of transparency when it comes to the allocation of resources. She's hopeful, though, that the bill being passed soon is a step in the right direction.
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Rep. Sharice Davids criticized leadership of both parties Thursday for the standoff over additional funding for the program intended to enable small businesses to pay their workers through the COVID-19 pandemic.
Davids, D-Kansas, made her comments Thursday as the $350 billion Paycheck Protection Program already appears to be out of money. The program was part of the recent stimulus legislation and is aimed at helping businesses under 500 employees stay afloat as social gathering restrictions make it difficult for retailers and other businesses to operate.
Hailee Bland-Walsh promised her employees three paychecks — one every two weeks — when she closed City Gym KC in Waldo on St. Patrick's Day in response to the coronavirus pandemic.
She's three weeks into that commitment, but with customers canceling memberships to her gym as they've lost jobs, Bland-Walsh is looking for other sources of capital to keep her business afloat.
Between uprooted routines and limited opportunity for social interaction, there's rising concerns about mental health during the coronavirus pandemic.
To address these concerns — and offer solutions — U.S. Rep. Sharice Davids on Thursday hosted a question and answer session with Johnson County Mental Health Center Deputy Director Susan Rome.
Less than 24 hours after U.S. Rep. Sharice Davids' self quarantine ended, she hopped on a plane to Washington, D.C., to vote yes on the $2 trillion relief package signed into law by President Donald Trump Friday afternoon.
Davids announced on March 19 she was voluntarily self quarantining after learning she came into contact with a fellow member of Congress who tested positive for the coronavirus two weeks ago. Her quarantine period ended yesterday, March 26, just in time to make it to the nation's capital and vote on the relief bill.
Even before Rep. Sharice Davids quarantined herself in her Roeland Park home for possible COVID-19 exposure, she had largely switched her congressional office from physical to digital.
And, like many of her constituents in Kansas' 3rd Congressional District, she's trying in her own way to settle in as COVID-19 rages across the planet.
Rep. Sharice Davids on Monday issued a release outlining her priorities for a stimulus package to address the massive economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Masks. Test Supplies. Ventilators. Gloves. Gowns.
These are the most critical tools that our doctors, nurses and other first responders on the front line of the coronavirus pandemic need to continue their tireless work and save lives. But in my many conversations with local public health officials and hospital workers, it has become clear that they are lacking the lifesaving supplies they need.