small business administration

Op-Ed: Senator Patrick Joyce (April 2026) - April has been a month of continued recovery, renewed focus and meaningful progress for the communities I’m...

The Small Business Administration’s rules prevent it from helping most employee- and consumer-owned cooperatives, even though Congress specifically asked it to. The result? Co-ops are largely cut out of the mainstream financial system.

An online lending platform called Kabbage sent 378 pandemic loans worth $7 million to fake companies (mostly farms) with names like “Deely Nuts” and “Beefy King.”