• Small businesses share frustration of losing out in first round of PPP funding

    Small businesses share frustration of losing out in first round of PPP funding

    Small businesses shut out of the government’s paycheck protection loan program last week are fuming at their banks for fumbling their applications. Dan Abrams, who owns The Mermaid Inn and five other eateries in Manhattan, had all of his loan documents at the ready when the Small Business Administration launched the $350 million stimulus program …