Mexico City. The “popular” Mexico demonstrated a capacity to resist and adapt to a new reality, even when small businesses, micro-enterprises or the population living in communities far from a metropolis turned out to be one of the sectors most affected by the crisis that it generated. Covid-19, assures Compartamos Banco. Patricio Diez de Bonilla, … Read more
New York City restaurant owners appear to be increasingly mired in rental debt. A new survey from the New York City Hospitality Alliance reveals that restaurants in the five boroughs face a grim outlook. 92% of those surveyed say they could not pay their rent in December because the state imposed restrictions on consumption in … Read more
MEXICO – Mexico City, the hotbed of the pandemic in the country, reopened its shopping centers with restrictions despite continuing on high alert due to the covid-19 health crisis, which now adds more than 1.9 million cases and more than 168,000 dead. The mayor of the capital, Claudia Sheinbaum, justified the reopening of shopping centers … Read more
The consistory has acquired books worth 2,000 euros from each of the local bookstores that have joined this initiative, which have been Leomanía, Letras Corsarias, El Carmen, Nueva Plaza Universitaria, Librería Pablos, Melibea, Rivas, Villamayor 47, Yuste, Shrews, La Caraba, La Galatea, Víctor Jara, Los Robles, Campus, La Nave, La Latina, Castilla, Mundus Libri, Quercus, … Read more
The authorities of the state of NY, in the United States, presented on Tuesday a budget that includes a tax increase for the richest and cuts in health and education if it does not receive about 15,000 million dollars from the federal government. The coronavirus brought a deep economic crisis to the coffers of the … Read more
Trader in a market on wheels north of Mexico City, Karla Sanchez began 2021 with the diagnosis of covid-19, unable to go out to work and still dragging debts due to lack of income; To this are added the December expenses, the purchase of medicines to combat the disease, the Three Kings Day and tuition … Read more
In a measure to protect people affected by the economic crisis generated by covid-19 pandemic, NY will ban most of the evictions in the state for the next several months. He Senate state, controlled by the Democrats, approved the measure on Monday and Assembly, in the hands of the same party, planned to do the … Read more
Marisol Gonzales is originally from El Salvador and lives in New York. At 45, she has just lost her job as a therapeutic masseuse. She is one of the single mothers hit hard by the economic crisis caused by the pandemic. She now works as a home help but it is not enough to pay … Read more
During the last months, Elba saw her expenses increase by staying at home with her two children all day; to this he added the temporary loss of 40 percent of his salary for the pandemic, forcing her to stop paying a credit via payroll that he kept in HSBC for an amount still of 25 … Read more
A third of small businesses in New Jersey closed in 2020, according to a new analysis from Harvard’s TrackTheRecovery.org data project. The report reveals that 31.2% of small businesses in the Garden State closed as of November 16. The figure is just above the national average estimated by the New Jersey Business & Industry Association, … Read more