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Tell Congress: Protect Black Businesses during the COVID-19 Outbreak!
Black businesses and their employees are being locked out of the federal coronavirus relief fund. Congress’ current small business relief program assumes that all business owners have equal access to credit and to banking services. But we know that has never been the case. From redlining to the refusal to provide loans, Black people in this country have historically been locked out of entrepreneurship, with devastating consequences for our communities.
Today, Black-owned firms with paid employees generate over $103 billion annually. The largest share of that revenue comes from Black-owned businesses in the health care and social services sector. By providing a paycheck guarantee to businesses directly, Congress has the chance to invest in essential industries, to prevent countless layoffs, to preserve our communities’ access to healthcare, and to ensure that the places that have served our communities for years are able to survive this crisis.
Join us in calling on Congress to cut out the middleman and provide a direct paycheck guarantee to small businesses today!
It is not a coincidence that the median wealth of white families is roughly 10 times the median wealth of Black families. Generational inequalities in healthcare, housing, and employment mean that Black people are more likely to die from COVID-19 than any other demographic in the U.S. Unless Congress provides direct relief to small business owners, our communities will continue to disproportionately share the burden of this crisis. Black entrepreneurs deserve the same kind of access to coronavirus relief packages that will keep other businesses in this nation afloat during this crisis and beyond. It’s time for a direct paycheck guarantee for small businesses from Congress now.
When you protect Black business, you protect Black workers. Join us in demanding a direct Paycheck Guarantee from Congress now!
These are our demands:
- Funding for small business grants, not loans, that will allow for Black-owned businesses to retain and rehire their workforce and reopen after the health crisis. This includes funds for direct payroll support, as well as covering all costs to maintain the business. Making sure that businesses, especially Black owned businesses, can maintain payroll through direct transfers rather than loans will ensure these businesses can survive the crisis, get money into the hands of people more quickly, and relieve the strain on a patchwork of state unemployment systems.
- Mandate a full, public accounting by race, gender and geography of where stimulus money has gone particularly have Black-owned businesses received federal support.
- Create targeted support funds for Black businesses. Any additional funding for small business support should include a substantial dedicated fund for supporting minority-owned businesses.
Here is the Petition:
To Representatives,
In the best of times, Black people have had to overcome this country’s persistent underinvestment in Black business. According to a 2016 study by the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy, only 1% of Black-owned businesses received a bank loan in their first year of operation, compared to 7% of white businesses. And twice the number of white business owners use a credit card during their first year of operation at 30%, as do Black business owners at 15%.
Today, Black-owned firms with paid employees generate over $103 billion annually. The largest share of that revenue comes from Black-owned businesses in the health care and social services sector. By providing a paycheck guarantee to businesses directly, you have the opportunity to invest in essential industries, to prevent countless layoffs, to preserve Black communities’ access to healthcare, and to ensure that the places that have served Black communities for years are able to survive this crisis.
Generational inequalities in healthcare, housing, and employment mean that Black people are more likely to die from COVID-19 than any other demographic in the U.S. Unless Congress provides direct relief to small business owners, Black communities will continue to disproportionately share the burden of this crisis. We asking that you implement a direct paycheck guarantee for small businesses.
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1864 – The U.S. Congress passed legislation that allowed the inscription “In God We Trust” to be included on one-cent and two-cent coins.
“In God We trust“, also written as “In God we trust“, is the official motto of the United States of America and of the U.S. state of Florida. It was adopted by the U.S. Congress in 1956, supplanting E pluribus unum, in use since the initial 1776 design of the Great Seal of the United States.. The capitalized form “IN GOD WE TRUST” first appeared on the two-cent piece in 1864 and has appeared on paper currency since 1957. A law passed in a Joint Resolution by the 84th Congress (P.L. 84–140) and approved by President Dwight Eisenhower on July 30, 1956, requires that “In God We Trust” appear on American currency. The following year, the phrase was used on paper money for the first time—on the updated one-dollar silver certificate that entered circulation on October 1, 1957.[5] The 84th Congress later passed legislation (P.L. 84–851), also signed by President Eisenhower on July 30, 1956, declaring the phrase to be the national motto.[6][7][8]
Some groups and people have objected to its use, contending that its religious reference violates the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.[9] These groups believe the phrase should be removed from currency and public property. In lawsuits, this argument has not overcome the interpretational doctrine of accommodationism, which allows government to endorse religious establishments as long as they are all treated equally.[10] According to a 2003 joint poll by USA Today, CNN, and Gallup, 90% of Americans support the inscription “In God We Trust” on U.S. coins.[11]
In 2006, “In God We Trust” was designated as the motto of the U.S. state of Florida.[12][13]
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2000 – The 1998 Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act went into effect.
Children’S Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA)
The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) is a U.S. federal law designed to limit the collection and use of personal information about children by the operators of Internet services and Web sites. Passed by the U.S. Congress in 1998, the law took effect in April 2000. It is administered and enforced by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). COPPA is “the first U.S. privacy law written for the Internet,” Melissa Campanelli wrote in Entrepreneur. “It was written specifically for Internet marketers that operate Web sites visited by children under the age of 13 and collect personal information from those kids. Its purpose is to regulate that collection.”
The FTC conducted a survey of 212 Web sites in 1998 and found that 89 percent of them collected personal information from children. Of those that collected data from children, 46 percent did not disclose this fact or explain how the information was used. The law was intended to address this potential problem by requiring Web sites and other online services directed toward children under the age of 13—as well as general audience sites that collect personal information from children—to obtain verifiable consent from the children’s parents. “Its stated purpose is to protect children from micro-targeting by advertisers and to minimize the potential for contact with dangerous individuals through chat rooms, e-mail, and bulletin boards by involving parents in kids’ online activities,” Monica Rogers explained in Crain’s Chicago Business.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
Bagner, Jessica, Amanda Evansburg, Vanessa Kaye Watson, and J. Brooke Welch. “Largest COPPA Civil Penalties to Date in FTC Settlements with Mrs. Fields Cookies and Hershey Food Corporation.” Intellectual Property & Technology Law Journal. June 2003.
Campanelli, Melissa. “The Wizard of Laws.” Entrepreneur. February 2001.
DiSabatino, Jennifer. “FTC OKs Self-Regulation to Protect Children’s Privacy.” Computerworld. 12 February 2001.
“Firms May Need to Examine Kid-Oriented Privacy.” Financial Net News. 31 July 2000.
Godbey, Robert Carson. “The Law of the Line.” Hawaii Business. November 2000.
Jarvis, Steve. “COPPA Minefield.” Marketing News. 4 December 2000.
Marks, Antony, and Keith Klein. “Coping with COPPA.” Los Angeles Business Journal. 31 July 2000.
Retsky, Maxine Lans. “Sites Find COPPA Compliance Mandatory.” Marketing News. 28 August 2000.
Rogers, Monica. “Kids’ Privacy Act Stings Web Sites; New Guidelines Limit Sharing of Data with Others.” Crain’s Chicago Business. 15 May 2000.
Rosencrance, Linda. “FTC Warns Sites to Comply with Children’s Privacy Law.” Computerworld. 24 July 2000.
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