#Paycheck Protection Program

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Austin St. John Avoids Prison Time For His Role In COVID-19 Relief Fraud #MMPR #PowerRangers #Crime #Television #Tokusatsu

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https://www.investopedia.com/where-ppp-money-went-5216725

https://quoththeraven.substack.com/p/economic-injustice-72-of-ppp-money

Sources^^

The PPP loans are forgiven by design.

The student loans are unforgivable by design.

The PPP loans have no interest rate.

Student loans have compounding interest rates.

#ClassWarfare

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Who is Not Eligible for a PPP Loan? Everything You Need to Know

Who is Not Eligible for a PPP Loan? Everything You Need to Know #PaycheckProtectionProgram #PPP #CARESAct #SmallBusinessSupport #BusinessLoans #LoanEligibility #FinancialAssistance #SmallBusiness #PPPIneligibility #SBA #EconomicRelief #BusinessCompliance #FinancialGuidance #COVID19Relief #Entrepreneurship #BusinessFunding #LoanApplication #PPPLoan #SmallBiz #BusinessGrowth #NonProfitEligibility #IndependentContractors #FinancialRecords #LegalCompliance #BusinessDocumentation #PPPFAQs #FundingOpportunities #BusinessAdvice #FinancialLiteracy

The Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), introduced as part of the CARES Act, provides essential financial support to small businesses. However, not all businesses or individuals are eligible for a PPP loan. Understanding the ineligibility criteria is crucial for ensuring compliance and avoiding potential legal or financial setbacks. Below, we’ll explore who is not eligible for a PPP loan in great…

[nationallawreview]

Acting U.S. Attorney Levy Forecasts False Claims Act COVID Cases Targeting Private Lenders Of CARES Act Loans That Failed In Their Obligation To Safeguard Government Funds

Acting U.S. Attorney Joshua Levy discussed the enforcement priorities for the Massachusetts U.S. Attorney’s Office (USAO) during a Q&A session on May 29, 2024, and made clear that the historical focus of the office remains the top priority: detecting and combating health care fraud, waste, and abuse. In particular, both Levy and Chief of the USAO’s Civil Division, Abraham George, have recently…

[vander-12]

Do Employees Get the Employee Retention Credit?

The Employee Retention Credit (ERC) has been a lifeline for businesses during and post-COVID, But what about employees? Do they receive any benefits from this tax credit? In this article, we’ll explore the Employee Retention Credit and determine whether employees are eligible for its benefits. Understanding the Employee Retention Credit The Employee Retention Credit is a provision introduced by…

[phoenixyfriend]

I think that one of the things I find most frustrating about the tariffs conversation (and I find a lot of it frustrating) is... well, okay, it's two things, which are related:

ONE: MAGA are stealing leftist talking points

TWO: That's not how protectionist tariffs work. (This is probably the more important one.)

So.

ONE: The rhetoric of 'temporary hardship to reach eventual greater collective stability' is something that the left generally says with a little more sincerity, oftentimes with things like taxes for public infrastructure or welfare.

It also generally means that everyone experiences a touch of hardship, but the wealth is reinvested into the economy to boost the collective good; the sincerity is low with centrists, but higher with the far left.

The hardship is also more likely to not be moving money to the wealthy, something that is very much happening here. There are some massive shortfalls in tax income these past few years, some of which have been going on for decades, like the subsidization of the fossil fuel industry or unusually high investment in the military, but a big one recently has been the 2017 tax cuts that Trump introduced for the wealthy in his first term. They are, from articles I've seen, responsible for trillions in lost revenue per year sine their introduction, and while they expire in 2025, Trump and this Republican Congress have made it clear that they intend to extend those tax cuts as long as they can. The tariffs are to cover that gap in the budget, meaning that everyone is paying more in taxes, on goods that are disproportionately consumed by the lower and middle classes, in order to cover the tax breaks that billionaires got.

Very much stealing from the poor to give to the rich! That's what the tariffs are about!

e.g. yes you're paying a few extra dollars in taxes this year, but it's being invested in developing a free and reduced school lunch program; while you won't see any immediate benefits, and you'll be a little strapped for cash for month or two if you're living paycheck to paycheck, but you'll see a huge load off your mind come September. Could also be a few extra dollars for an infrastructure project, which takes ten years to build... but once it's built, your commute is cut in half because of the new bridge, or the electricity is subsidized by some new wind farms, or the landfill has been assessed and built over to be a safe, clean park. This second example about infrastructure is Biden's Inflation Reduction Act, which fed money into infrastructure work and other major projects across the country; in many cases, state Senators, congresspeople, and governors who had voted or campaigned against the IRA would then take credit for the benefits their constituents saw.

TWO: You can't use protectionist tariffs to revive local industry without investing in it. High tariffs can minimize damage to the economy if the industry hasn't already left.

If the factories are still around, and the employees are still there and knowledgeable, and the resources haven't been left to diminish on their own, then you protect them with tariffs in the immediate aftermath of a shift in the status quo. You prevent the 'theft of business' with the tariffs, and since it all just seems to be business as usual domestically, it's a blip in the radar for consumers. A bit more complicated if the domestic market has also been exporting the product, as markets abroad will shift to the cheaper product you are protecting against, but you now have a bit more time to innovate a reason to keep market share.

If the industry has been allowed to diminish, or never really existed in the first place (we can't grow coffee or bananas or avocado or mangos at an industry scale, we do not have the weather for it), then a sudden implementation of protectionist tariffs will pass costs along to the consumer until the industry is up and running again.

You know how you fix that? Subsidize the industry you're trying to revive.

In 1910, there were 144,607 people employed in clothing factories in the US (1910 census, employment). This doesn't include people working in shoe factories (181,010), tanneries (33,553), dressmakers and seamstresses (449,342; presumably separated from the first statistic by not being in a factory), dyers (14,050), sewers and sewing machine operatives (291,209), shoemakers and cobblers not in factories (69,570), and the hundreds of thousands of people in the textiles alone (I'm not doing the math, but it's over a million). So we're looking at several million people in the garment industry in the US, in 1910.

In 2020, the combined category of Textile, Apparel, and Furnishing employment contained a total of 16,510 people.

You cannot bring an industry like that back to the US without heavily, heavily subsidizing it to

A. Keep the costs down to where the public can still buy clothing without making it so the people suddenly in this industry are paid pennies on the hour.

B. Train this new generation of people in an industry that barely exists anymore.

C. Build the infrastructure to support the industry, from cotton gins to sewing factories.

You can't bring back an industry that was in the millions in 1910 when there are less than 20,000 people doing it now, in a population that has more than tripled (92mill in 1910, 331mill in 2020).

I just. You have to feed those tariffs into rebuilding the industry. You can't feed them into tax breaks for the wealthy if your stated goal is to rebuild industry. I know that feeding money to his rich friends is the goal for Trump, but I'm so incredibly frustrated that people don't seem to get the basic functions of protectionist tariff application.

Almost forgot to advertize myself since this was just me venting about current events, inspired by a LegalEagle video, but:

Prompt me on ko-fi! I’m trying to move out of my parents’ house.

[thestudentempanada]

June 9, 2025, JVP is paying for ads to explain how actually they didn't do anything wrong, and that's why they paid $700,000 to settle a fraud lawsuit.

Also it's the ADL's fault they committed tax fraud, somehow.

The lawsuit in question is:

U.S. ex rel. TZAC v. A Jewish Voice for Peace, Inc.

That is, the plaintiff in this case is the United States acting on information provided by TZAC, but JVP calls it "the ADL's ideologically fueled lawsuit."

Also- yes, sometimes groups settle even if they aren't liable; this isn't one of those cases. JVP took a little over 300,000 dollars as a loan from the government under the Paycheck Protection Act Program of the CARES Act Disaster Relief Program.

  At the time it applied for the second draw PPP loan, A Jewish Voice for Peace certified to its lender and the SBA in the loan application that it was “not a business concern or entity primarily engaged in political or lobbying activities, including any entity that is organized for research or for engaging in advocacy in areas such as public policy or political strategy or otherwise describes itself as a think tank in any public documents.”  It further certified in the loan forgiveness application that it met the conditions for receiving the second draw PPP loan. The investigation revealed that A Jewish Voice for Peace was primarily engaged in political activities.

Literally the only thing JVP does is engage in "anti-zionist advocacy."

[bongwaterbirdbath]

Got this Bernie Sanders email. Thought I’d share:

Dear Reader,

I do not often find myself in the habit of thanking Elon Musk, but he has done an exceptional job of demonstrating a point that we have made for years — and that is the fact we live in an oligarchic society in which billionaires dominate not only our politics and the information we consume, but our government and economic lives as well.

That has never been more clear than it is today.

But given the news and attention Mr. Musk has been getting over the last few weeks as he illegally and unconstitutionally dismantles government agencies, I thought it was an appropriate time to ask the question that the media and most politicians don't seem to be asking: What do he and other multi-billionaires really want? What is their endgame?

In my opinion, what Musk and those around him are aggressively striving for is not novel, it is not complicated and it is not new. It is what ruling classes throughout history have always wanted and have believed is theirs by right: more power, more control, more wealth. And they don’t want ordinary people and democracy getting in their way.

Elon Musk and his fellow oligarchs believe government and laws are simply an impediment to their interests and what they are entitled to.

In pre-revolutionary America, the ruling class governed through the “divine right of kings,��� the belief that the King of England was an agent of God, not to be questioned. In modern times, the oligarchs believe that as the masters of technology and as "high-IQ individuals,” it is their absolute right to rule. In other words, they are our modern-day kings.

And it is not just power. It’s incredible wealth. Today, Musk, Bezos and Zuckerberg have a combined worth of $903 billion, more than the bottom half of American society — 170 million people. Since Trump was elected, unbelievably, their wealth has soared. Elon Musk has become $138 billion richer, Zuckerberg has become $49 billion richer and Bezos has become $28 billion richer. Add it all up and the three wealthiest men in America have become $215 billion richer since Election Day.

Meanwhile, while the very rich become much richer, 60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck, 85 million are uninsured or under-insured, 25% of seniors are trying to survive on $15,000 or less, 800,000 are homeless and we have the highest rate of childhood poverty of almost any major country on earth.

Do you think the oligarchs give a damn about these people? Trust me, they don’t. Musk’s decision to dismember U.S. AID means that thousands of the poorest people around the world will go hungry or die of preventable diseases.

But it’s not just abroad. Here in the United States they’ll soon be going after the healthcare, nutrition, housing, and educational programs that protect the most vulnerable people in our country - so that Congress can provide huge tax breaks for them and their fellow billionaires. As modern-day kings, who believe they have the absolute right to rule, they will sacrifice, without hesitation, the well-being of working people to protect their privilege.

Further, they will use the enormous media operations they own to deflect attention away from the impact of their policies while they “entertain us to death.” They will lie, lie and lie. They will continue to spend huge amounts of money to buy politicians in both major political parties.

They are waging a war on the working class of this country, and it is a war they are intent on winning.

I am not going to kid you — the problems this country faces right now are serious and they are not easy to solve. The economy is rigged, our campaign finance system is corrupt and we are struggling to control climate change — among other issues.

But this is what I do know:

The worst fear of the ruling class in this country is that Americans — Black, White, Latino, urban and rural, gay and straight — come together to demand a government that represents all of us, not just the wealthy few.

Their nightmare is that we will not allow ourselves to be divided up by race, religion, sexual orientation or country of origin and will, together, have the courage to take them on.

Will it be easy? Of course not.

The ruling class of this country will constantly remind you that they have all the power. They control the government, they own the media. “You want to take us on? Good luck,” they will say. “There's nothing you can do about it.”

But our job today is to not forget the great struggles and sacrifices that millions of people have waged over the centuries to create a more democratic, just and humane society:

* Overthrowing the King of England to create a new nation and self-rule. Impossible.

* Establishing universal suffrage. Impossible.

* Ending slavery and segregation. Impossible.

* Granting workers the right to form unions and ending child labor. Impossible.

* Giving women control over their own bodies. Impossible.

* Passing legislation to establish Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, a minimum wage, clean air and water standards. Impossible.

In these difficult times despair is not an option. We’ve got to fight back in every way we can.

We have to get involved in the political process — run for office, connect with our local, state and federal legislators, donate to candidates who will fight for the working class of this country. We have to create new channels for communication and information sharing. We have to volunteer not just politically, but to build community locally.

Whatever we can do is what we must do.

Needless to say, I intend to do my part — both inside the beltway and traveling throughout the country — to stand up for the working class of this country. In the days, weeks, and months ahead I hope you will join me in that struggle.

In solidarity,

Bernie Sanders

[mossadspypigeon]

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Austin St. John Accepts Plea Deal For Defrauding US Government of COVID-19 Relief Funds

Austin St. John Accepts Plea Deal For Defrauding US Government of COVID-19 Relief Funds, Court Date Set For Today. #PowerRangers #MMPR #Entertainment #News #Television

Two years ago on May 19, 2022, Former Power Rangers actor Austin St. John was indicted for his role in a COVID-19 relief fund scheme. Now, it has been confirmed that Jason Lawrence Geiger (Austin St. John) will be taking a plea deal for defrauding the United States Government. According to a new court document obtained by No Pink Spandex and the United States District Court For The Eastern…

[1americanconservative]

@elonmusk

The oldest living American is Naomi Whitehead, who is 114 years old

@DOGE

In 2020-2021,

@SBAgov

issued 3,095 loans, including PPP (Paycheck Protection Program) and EIDL (Economic Injury Disaster Loan), for $333M to borrowers over 115 years old who were still marked as alive in the Social Security database. In one case, a 157 years old individual received $36k in loans.

@elonmusk

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Feb 16

According to the Social Security database, these are the numbers of people in each age bucket with the death field set to FALSE! Maybe Twilight is real and there are a lot of vampires collecting Social Security

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Who is Not Eligible for a PPP Loan? Everything You Need to Know

Who is Not Eligible for a PPP Loan? Everything You Need to Know #PPPLoan #LoanEligibility #BusinessLoans #SmallBusinessSupport #FinancialAssistance #PPPProgram #COVID19Relief #LoanGuidelines #BusinessFunding #EntrepreneurTips #SmallBizHelp #LoanApplication #PPPUpdates #FinancialLiteracy #BusinessAdvice #FundingOptions #EconomicRelief #LoanRequirements #BusinessGrowth #StartupFunding #PPPLoanInfo #EligibilityCriteria #FinancialEducation #SmallBusinessOwner #LoanResources #PPPFAQ #BusinessFinance #GovernmentLoans #FundingYourBusiness #PPPInsights

The Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), introduced as part of the CARES Act, provides essential financial support to small businesses. However, not all businesses or individuals are eligible for a PPP loan. Understanding the ineligibility criteria is crucial for ensuring compliance and avoiding potential legal or financial setbacks. Below, we’ll explore who is not eligible for a PPP loan in great…

[mariacallous]

President Donald Trump’s long-running dream to protect loyalists in the federal bureaucracy and fire any perceived enemy got even closer to reality Thursday, when House Republicans passed a massive tax and spending bill.

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which passed 215-214, cuts $1 trillion in federal health and food programs while adding nearly $4 trillion in tax cuts steered primarily to the wealthy. But it also includes a little-noticed provision that would force new federal employees to either give up traditional job protections or take a significant cut to their compensation.

If the measure survives in whatever package the GOP-controlled Senate passes, unions warn it could turn the federal workforce into an old-school spoils system.

“It’s a huge policy change masquerading as a small budget provision,” said Daniel Horowitz, legislative director at the American Federation of Government Employees, a union representing more than 800,000 workers.

“It torches the civil service.”

And it does so in a sneaky way.

Federal workers receive retirement benefits through what’s known as the Federal Employees Retirement System, or FERS. Retirees are paid an annuity based upon their length of service, funded through contributions from both employees and their agencies. Current workers chip in a certain percentage of their paycheck into FERS — either 0.8% or 4.4%, depending on when they were hired — and the government covers the rest.

The GOP measure would force new federal employees to pay a whopping 5% surcharge — bringing their FERS contribution to 9.4% of their pay — unless they agree to become an “at-will” employee. That means they would waive their right to appeal their termination except in particular cases like racial discrimination.

[stari-hun]

I need everyone’s headcanons on their favs in a modern modern AU

Thought honestly this isn’t really a modern au it’s just an idea of what would happen if they were grew up as like millennials and Gen Z but also they’re all from diff eras so that needs an AU in itself?-

I feel like Sotheby would be a religious Wild Krats enjoyer. She already loves the adventuring genre a lot so I think she’d love Pokémon too and have all the games. Vertin would like the adventuring genre too but she’d be more a meta gamer and into adventuring series like Journey of Elaina or Frieren.

I think Sotheby would be super into DND too. I feel like she’s the type to go for the same class but different executions of it. Vertin is definitely the intentional game breaker, but Sotheby knows enough about potions and probably magic tools to be an accidental bomb in the party.

Sonetto is childhood friends with them, she met Vertin way before and they both met Sotheby in middle school when she was a year below them. I feel like she would be the type of kid who struggles to find interests of their own and instead builds interest up in stuff her friends already like.

I imagine Isolde and Kakania would be like childhood friends from something like private school or a Catholic boarding school. It’s projecting but I think Isolde and Kakania would LOVE Secrets of Moonacre and The Golden Compass.

Druvis and Lilya would obv be college students, but I wanna say Druvis would be an environmental activist looking to go into politics. Like for an environmental protection agency working on restrictions for deforesting.

Marcus would be a fan of like those late night documentaries and esp the series Round Planet. I think she’d thrive being able to access online archives for books. I think she’d also take a year after Highschool to go on like a tour of the world in a program that allows young adults to work in national parks and nature bases for free housing a paycheck. She’d transfer around running blogs and writing small bits for local newspapers in each place she visits using her Arcanum to find hidden stories.

Hofmann would be a college teacher from the college Marcus is dual enrolled in (she's on an accelerated course and Hofmann is a journalism professor).

[4liyahmajidah]

This is just a dump for Tumblr because I feel like this is the only platform I have that appreciates my writing

These are things I just want to let go — and hopefully, someone out there can relate, even with a story as unique as mine. I’m not going to give you the whole story, because I don’t want the mystery of me to be no mystery at all. But I want to share how I became radical with something I was simply born into — something I didn’t even realize was shaping me.

I’m from North Philly. Growing up there was rough, even as a child. And I can only imagine what it was like for my mom, a single mother at the time, taking care of five kids with the help of our grandmom. It never made sense to me — why the city, the state, decided to put us in foster care… how they were so willing to give children away to strangers with nothing more than a clean background check and some basic training — instead of giving those same resources to my hard-working mother.

I started school rough. I had really bad eczema, and kids are ignorant and mean as hell because their parents are either just like them or never taught them shame. I didn’t really have friends. I spent most of my days at school quiet and to myself — and this isn’t no pity story. That silence became a superpower. I learned how to observe. I learned how to feel energy without words. I truly believe that power has saved my life more times than I can count.

People read books to learn what radicalism is when they get to college. But for me? I was born into it. The first red flag was when they took us out of our home instead of helping my mom keep it. That was the first time I realized the system was fucked up — and I was only eight years old.

As I grew up in the system, I saw how predatory it is. How sick it is. How defeated it is on all counts. I had some great coaches, mostly women, who shaped me into the woman I am today — but I’ve noticed that the best people always leave. Because once they realize their part in the system, they can’t stomach it anymore.

I was placed in foster care on Halloween of 2007. The policies and regulations back then were far different than they are now. By high school, I became an advocate for other foster youth — people like me who had been wronged. But here’s the kicker — every one of those clubs and programs I joined were run by nonprofits. It took me until this year to realize that nonprofits are just another arm of the same system — exploiting vulnerable people for tax write-offs, branding survival stories as inspiration porn while keeping the cycle going.

If you’re expecting something back after a good deed, that’s never good.

I’ve dealt with greedy foster mothers who saw foster care as a financial come-up — who used children as paychecks. I’ve been in homes where it was obvious I wasn’t the favorite because I wasn’t biological. It was obvious I wasn’t the favorite because I wasn’t relatable. It was obvious I wasn’t the favorite because I was far more resilient than my abusers would ever be. I’ve watched my foster mom bribe a social worker just to make sure the checks kept coming. I’ve been passed from burnt-out social worker to burnt-out social worker, each one more jaded than the last.

I’ve been in homeless shelters where I couldn’t even celebrate prom properly because I had to be inside by curfew.

All my time in the system made me realize that all systems are one in the same. Foster care mimics the prison industrial complex — the group homes, the shelters, five kids to a room, strict rules that don’t protect you — they just control you. My childhood was a prison.

Now that I’m an adult, the hardest pill to swallow is realizing that I’ve been institutionalized.

It fucked me up in ways I don’t even have the full language for yet. It robbed me of things I’ll never get back — not just my childhood, but my ability to believe I deserve good things. I don’t believe I deserve anything good. And when good things come close, I either talk myself out of them or self-destruct before they can ever get to me.

That’s something I don’t know if I’ll ever forgive the system for.

This trauma has gotten in the way of everything that would deem me normal — healthy friendships, healthy relationships, even just the ability to feel safe without constantly looking over my shoulder. When all you’ve ever wanted is love and acceptance but nobody ever taught you how to receive it, you end up seeking it in the only places that feel familiar — chaotic, abusive, dark, comfortable spaces.

Radicalism isn’t something I chose. It’s the realization that my very existence as a human being has been robbed. That my pain isn’t some tragic accident — it’s by design.

If you want me to continue lmk

[vander-12]

Do Employees Get the Employee Retention Credit?

The Employee Retention Credit (ERC) has been a lifeline for businesses during and post-COVID, But what about employees? Do they receive any benefits from this tax credit? In this article, we’ll explore the Employee Retention Credit and determine whether e

The Employee Retention Credit (ERC) has been a lifeline for businesses during and post-COVID, But what about employees? Do they receive any benefits from this tax credit? In this article, we’ll explore the Employee Retention Credit and determine whether employees are eligible for its benefits. Understanding the Employee Retention Credit The Employee Retention Credit is a provision introduced by…