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Washington won’t fix design flaws in small-business loan program

When Washington scrambled to rescue small businesses knocked down by the coronavirus crisis, there was no confusion about who was supposed to get a piece of the $349 billion from the new Paycheck Protection Program. “The PPP was intended to help small businesses that often don’t participate

‘Appreciation caravans’ honor California’s essential farmworkers

Farmworkers in Watsonville, California, known as America’s strawberry capital, will look up from the fields on Saturday to see a line of cars honking, waving, holding posters and shouting “thank you” in several languages. The campesino, or farmworker, “appreciation caravans” started last weekend, the brainchild