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when the paycheck protection program was announced, Stephanie Coddle knew she needed to be first in line. Set my alarm that night for 11 55. So at 12 o'clock it went live and I applied, citing crash for me. So I thought the odds in my favor. And did you get the P P. P loan? No. At United approved Coddle runs Black Girl Group out of her home in Atlanta, connecting women of color freelancers with other businesses. She's one of the thousands of small business owners around the country who were left empty handed when the 1st $350 billion paycheck protection program ran dry. I was gonna use the paycheck protection alone money to be able to provide some what a freelance stimulus funds for my freelancers, Congress says. More money is on the way, but the first round sent tens of millions of dollars to bigger, publicly traded companies like Potbelly, Ruths, Chris and Shake Shack. These companies say this money will support their employees. Still, Shake Shack returned its loan. I've heard about big restaurant chain being able to get money, and it still looks because just like they already have access to so much capital. But people like me who and I am a small business owner. We don't have that same access to funding in New York, the epicenter of Cove in 19 their arm or small businesses than anywhere else in the country. Elena Nat runs the Greater New York Chamber of Commerce. The frustration that was out there was that the big clients of the big banks got the bunny. I have 3300 members, and I have a database that I speak to regularly and only one person has. Julia Testa owns one of those New York small businesses that didn't get funded. Four of the seven employees at her flower shop are out of a job. You just feel like as a small business owner, you run the economy way, employed people. We make things move on and to be hung out to dry like this, totally forgotten about it. Just it makes us makes me feel on appreciate. Women in the U. S. Have been hit hard by the pandemic, making up nearly 60% of job losses in March, and women owned 42% of all small businesses. But these female business owners say they're not discouraged. In fact, they say they will apply to any future rounds of P P. P. But offer this advice. But when you see an application for Reus Crest, maybe you rationally think like, you know, just do they need it Or does Juliette pastor Flowers with seven employees need the money? I just asked them to Please, Please, please do everything they possibly can to help us because we're in need. Not in the next year. We are any now and we're counting on them to be able to survive.

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