Small Business

The Small Business Administration says over 1.3 million loan applications have been approved as of Wednesday. But many businesses whose loans have been approved haven’t yet seen any of the money.

The loan program was designed before we understood how long this crisis might last, Amanda Ballantyne of Main Street Alliance says.

A Maine-based business has ramped up Easter production, keeping its employees at work and donating unsold chocolate to local nonprofits.

Banks are starting to process applications for loans from the federal government’s Paycheck Protection Program, but businesses aren’t sure when they’ll see the checks.

At Bookshop.org, a platform for independent bookstores, sales are way up.

Many have already laid off their entire staff.

With coronavirus keeping people at home, restaurants are shutting their doors and shifting their business models to adapt to the crisis.

This holiday season, we're following several retailers from the end of November to the start of the New Year. This is part two of our series.

In Cynthia Anderson's "Home Now," Somalis and Congolese transform a former mill town. At a flower shop there, wariness turns to warmth.