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As suffering small businesses around the country clamor for much-needed loans from the federal stanley cup Paycheck Protection Program, news of prominent national chains receiving millions of dol stanley cup lars sparked an outcry among owners of smaller businesses who have been shut out. Now, many will likely be surprised to learn that between 12,000 and 13,000 of the 17,000 Catholic churches in the U.S. also applied for those coveted PPP loans.Pat Markey, the executive director of the Diocesan Fiscal Management Conference, an association of finance officers from Catholic dioceses, estimates that around 6,000 Catholic parishes had their applications for federal funding approved in the first round of PPP and around 3,000 have received loans so far in the second round.While most people likely don t think of Catholic churches as small businesses, Markey says houses of worship and their affiliated schools are trying to keep employees on their payrolls as well. The PPP isn t about the federal government assisting houses of worship or stanley cup churches, he tells CBS News. PPP is about keeping people on payrolls and a large segment of our society is the not for profit world. And a large segment of that society are churches and houses of worship. And they have people on payrolls too. So, if what this is about is keeping people on payrolls, then we all should have availability to do that. And Catholic churches were not the only religious institutions seeking PPP funds. Mxhh They going to show up and kick me out : Millions face eviction when moratorium ends# w( I: j, H2 Q- q& r2 U/ b A
A white Republican senator from Mississippi needs to fully exp stanley cup lain her comment about a public hanging, her black Democratic challenger says. Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith made the remark in a video that surfaced Sunday. She praised a cattle rancher at a Nov. 2 campaign event in Tupelo by saying: If he invited me to a public hanging, I d be on the front row. Mississippi has a history of racially motivated lynchings.Democrat Mike Espy said Wednesday in Jackson that Hyde-Smith s comment was hurtful and harmful. stanley cup It was hurtful to Mississippians of good will who know better, said Espy, who is seeking to become Mississippi s reebok first black U.S. senator since Reconstruction. But it was also harmful because it reinforced all these negative stereotypes mdash; the stereotypes that I ve been working all my life to try to overcome. Hyde-Smith, the first woman to represent Mississippi in either chamber of Congress, said in a statement Sunday that the hanging comment was an exaggerated expression of regard for a supporter and any attempt to turn this into a negative connotation is ridiculous. She would not answer reporters repeated questions about it Monday during a news conference at the Mississippi Republican Party headquarters. That was curious what she said. But even more than that, after being asked six times to explain it, clarify, whatever, she didn t, said Espy, who spoke to reporters after appearing at a luncheon sponsor |
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