June 12, 2020 D CEO has named finalists in its third annual Nonprofit and Corporate Citizenship Awards, presented in partnership with the Communities Foundation of Texas. This year’s program attracted more than 510 nominations and included two new categories to recognize efforts in response to COVID-19. After several remote judging sessions, a total of 80 […]
June 11, 2020 Recent changes to the Small Business Administration’s Paycheck Protection Program will help more small businesses get their loans forgiven – but it also leaves banks on the hook for longer, unforgiven loans, meaning extra costs and a growing administrative burden, banks say. The Paycheck Protection Program Flexibility Act signed into law June […]
June 12, 2020 How much help is too much, especially during a pandemic? That question hangs over the extra $600 in weekly unemployment insurance benefits being awarded to millions who’ve lost their jobs. These so-called supercharged benefits began in April and are scheduled to end in July, and Congress is debating what comes next. Many […]
June 11, 2020 Dallas County reported 312 new cases of the coronavirus Thursday – breaking a single-day high it set the day before – while hospitalizations and emergency room visits also rose. Three new deaths were reported, all of them Dallas residents. The victims were a woman in her 50s, a man in his 60s […]
June 12, 2020 Dallas developer Bill Cawley just landed a new office project in Plano. The building that he will start soon, east of the Dallas North Tollway, is already half leased to First United Bank. That’s why Cawley is building in one of the few such deals during the pandemic. “I would never do […]
June 11, 2020 The pain in the job market continues as an additional 1.5 million sought jobless benefits for the first time last week, down 355,000 from the prior week. Continued claims fell by 339,000 to 20.9 million, a sign that more people are returning to work as the economy reopens after pandemic lockdowns. More […]
‘Look for the waters where there aren’t many sharks’: Despite recession, Dallas firm ramps up hiring
June 10, 2020 As COVID-19 and a recession swept across the nation, many companies decided to eliminate jobs, creating the worst unemployment crisis since the Great Depression. But The Crowther Group, a Dallas-based construction general contractor, decided instead to start hiring. “All of the things that I’ve read and I’ve studied as a business owner […]
June 10, 2020 After spending months advocating for small businesses and workers during the pandemic, Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban will give his first commencement address Saturday to thousands of Dallas County Community College District students entering the most uncertain economy in a century. His message: That first job doesn’t need to be a perfect […]
June 10, 2020 It’s a common saying that it takes a village to raise a child. For Dallas’ new Comprehensive Environmental & Climate Action Plan (CECAP), it took two major committees, two rounds of formal community meetings, more than 180 individual meetings with community groups, and a review of over 9,000 unique comments from surveys […]
June 11, 2020 Goldman Sachs Group Inc. plans to start the long-awaited return of its U.S. workforce this month, following a strategy of incremental restaffing that it rolled out in locations abroad where the coronavirus pandemic has slowed. The Wall Street investment bank will bring back an initial group of employees on June 22 to […]