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$1 loans? $10 million for a nail salon? Colorado’s federal coronavirus loan data has some eye-popping errors

The small business jackpot of $660 billion in forgivable loans helped thousands of small businesses in Colorado get through the coronavirus-related shutdowns in March. But just as the application process for the federal Paycheck Protection Program proved chaotic, so too is making sense of the data that shows who received how much. Some companies are […]

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Here’s a list of every Colorado business that received a Paycheck Protection Program loan

Colorado small businesses found some financial relief during the coronavirus pandemic thanks to the $600 billion in federal stimulus loans known as the Paycheck Protection Program. Approximately 104,402 of them were approved for a total of $10.4 billion. And now we know who and how much.  In Colorado, the loans helped keep about 900,000 people […]