Life in the Time of Coronavirus

I Own a Small Business. Trying to Get a Government Loan Is Its Own Crisis.

Applying for a payroll protection loan was stressful, confusing, and poorly timed. Then the government ran out of money.

Michelle Legro
GEN
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6 min readApr 17, 2020

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Photo illustration. Photo source: John Michael Kilbane

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Michelle Legro
GEN
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Deputy Editor, GEN. Previously an editor for Topic, Longreads, The New Republic, and Lapham’s Quarterly. gen.medium.com