HOUSTON – Support Local spotlights individual businesses challenged by the coronavirus pandemic and offers ways you can support them. We asked Houston businesses to share their story with us including how the public can help them. Here, we include their stories and how Houston residents can continue to support them during this time. Fill out…


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How do we reopen after the coronavirus goes away? The mere question, in the middle of the pandemic, is fraught. Anyone entertaining the idea that businesses should move toward reopening is shamed as caring more about the stock market than people dying. Any discussion of how to get people working again is met with people…


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Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said more than 800 lenders, mostly community banks, participated on Friday and that he expects all big banks will be accepting applications in the coming week. He promised that if the fund runs out of money, he’ll ask Congress for more.


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NPR's Michel Martin speaks with three journalists about the controversy surrounding what's considered an essential business where they are: Tara Haelle, Thomas Peele and Brenna Goth. MICHEL MARTIN, HOST:


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Houma-Thibodaux gained 900 jobs in February and was up by the same number compared to a year earlier, new figures show. The metro area, comprised of Terrebonne and Lafourche parishes, posted a 3.9% unemployment rate, down from 5.4% in January and 4.1% in February 2019, according to figures released Friday by the Louisiana Workforce Commission.


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