Restaurant Chains Took Loans Meant for Small Businesses. Will Radio Conglomerates Do the Same?

May 14, 2020

Elias Leight, Rolling Stone

Watchdog groups fear that language in a new stimulus bill could allow individual stations owned by large companies to “masquerade” as small businesses.

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Restaurant Chains Took Loans Meant for Small Businesses. Will Radio Conglomerates Do the Same?

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