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This year’s Detroit North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) has been canceled but will return in June 2021.
Mich. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer says the TCF Center (formerly Cobo Center), which normally anchors the show, is to be converted by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers into a 900-bed emergency hospital to help handle Michigan’s rising number of COVID-19 victims.
Pure Michigan Business Connect offering up to $1 million in grants to manufacturers looking to retool and produce critical service supplies
Michigan’s small business manufacturers looking to produce critical health and human service supplies can now apply for up to $150,000 in grants through the Michigan Economic Development Corporation’s PMBC COVID-19 Emergency Access & Retooling Program. The newly launched grant program will provide up to $1 million in grants to Michigan’s manufacturers that can quickly and effectively retool and produce critical supplies in response to the COVID-19 outbreak.
COVID-19 RESPONSE
How does the recent legislation impact your business?
Over the past two weeks, you've likely been inundated with information and guidance around COVID-19. Yesterday, we held a webinar with nearly 1,000 people in attendance, focused on recent coronavirus-related legislation and more importantly, what actions businesses should be taking now.
Following President Trump’s signing of the historic Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, SBA Administrator Jovita Carranza and Treasury Secretary Steven T. Mnuchin today announced that the SBA and Treasury Department have initiated a robust mobilization effort of banks and other lending institutions to provide small businesses with the capital they need.
DO NOT FALL FOR IT!!!
LANSING – Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel today warned Michiganders again to beware of scammers claiming to be from at least two local public health departments, calling residents to offer medication and at-home COVID-19 tests while asking for their Medicaid and Medicare numbers for billing purposes. Incoming calls are jamming local health departments’ phone lines, delaying important responses to COVID-19.
Reports so far have been focused on the Ionia County Health Department and now the Benzie Leelanau Public Health Department. The Attorney General’s office reissued a consumer alert making residents aware of the situation earlier today.
The Benzie Leelanau Public Health Department received multiple calls from residents in the 248 and 989 area codes asking about the calls. The department is in the 231 area code.
Congress approved and the President signed into law, the CARES Act on March 27, 2020. Certain provisions within the ACT have an impact on current SBA loans in addition to creating new loan and grant programs. This is a high-level look at some of the major portions of the Act.
Following Peters’ Legislation Being Signed into Law CARES Act Last Week Included Peters-led Pandemic Unemployment Assistance Act
DETROIT, MI – U.S. Senator Gary Peters (MI) today welcomed the State of Michigan’s announcement today that it will expand unemployment assistance to Michigan workers impacted by the Coronavirus pandemic. The expansion was made possible because of Peters’ Pandemic Unemployment Assistance Act, which was included in the federal, bipartisan Coronavirus, Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act signed into law last week.
LANSING, Mich. -- he COVID-19 crisis has prompted mandated school closures and idled workers, dramatically increasing the need for healthy food. To address the demand on the state’s seven regional food banks, the Michigan Farm Bureau Family of Companies and the Farm Bureau Insurance of Michigan Agent Charitable Fund today launched a statewide fundraiser, The Million Meal Challenge.
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