Tag: coronavirus
Iowa banks handled $3.7B in PPP loans in first week
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Iowa banks helped approve nearly $3.75 billion in loans through the U.S. Small Business Administration’s Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) for 22,295...
Hawkeye Hotels offers discounts for health care workers
The Fairfield Inn & Suites Coralville, owned and operated by Hawkeye Hotels, on a recent afternoon. CREDIT CBJ
By CBJ News Staff
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Coralville-based Hawkeye Hotels is...
Raytheon Technologies announces furloughs, salary cuts
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By CBJ News Staff
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Raytheon Technologies, citing “unprecedented business challenges” due to the impact of COVID-19,...
Small business owners worry PPP loans are not enough
By CBJ News Staff
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Business owners sounded off about the need to continue supporting small business once funds from the $350 billion Payroll Protection Program...
Affording Health: Sick, stressed and reporting for duty
In this six-part, subscribers-only series, the CBJ is exploring the crisis of health care affordability as it relates to employers and employees in the...
Corridor’s hoteliers hanging by a thread
The Coralville Marriott was quiet on March 31 aside from a few employee cars. Hotel properties remaining open are reporting occupancy rates of 10-15%....
Aura Cacia plans to share hand sanitizer profits
By CBJ News Staff
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Aura Cacia has begun manufacturing a limited-edition hand sanitizer due to the shortages of sanitizer caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, and...
Hospitals providing temp housing for area HC staff
Inside one of the temporary rooms being offered to health care workers at Mercy Medical Center, located at the 600 Building on the Mercy...
Ernst addresses PPP rollout in call with Corridor leaders
U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst. CREDIT JONIERNST.COM
By Katharine Carlon
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U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst called for patience as small businesses await dispersal of nearly $350 billion in...