Many small business have been suffering due to the economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. | Unsplash
Many small business have been suffering due to the economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. | Unsplash
The city of Muskegon has been granted approximately $70,000 in federal COVID-19 aid to help study what small businesses in west Michigan need to survive.
“The study will produce information that will aid the economic development community in responding to the needs of small businesses and entrepreneurs during and after the pandemic,” Michael Walsh, chief of staff for U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross, told MLive.
The West Michigan Shoreline Regional Development Commission will be receiving the funds from the CARES (Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security) Act and will analyze "entrepreneurial support needs" to help businesses that were hit hard by the economic effects of COVID-19.
“Given that we are in the middle of a pandemic, some of the data that we will use will help us as a region... provide additional support for entrepreneurs trying to determine how we can move past this in an efficient and effective way,” Dale Nesbary, president of Muskegon Community College, told MLive.
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