Philadelphia’s three representatives in the U.S. House gathered Wednesday at Madison War Memorial Park in Old City to call for emergency funds for the U.S. Postal Service. Democrats Brendan Boyle, Dwight Evans, and Mary Gay Scanlon were joined by City Commissioners Lisa Deeley and Omar Sabir and postal workers’ union members to demand immediate federal […]

U.S. Rep. Dwight Evans is calling for the next round of stimulus funding to focus on hard-hit small businesses, particularly Black and Latino-owned businesses. Evans, a Democrat from Pennsylvania and vice chair of the House Small Business Committee, told the Philadelphia Business Journal his immediate focus is ensuring that the remaining Paycheck Protection Program funding […]

In one of the first damage reports from the early George Floyd protests in Philadelphia and other cities, owners of the Walgreens chain told investors they are out $75 million for uninsured “store damage and inventory losses as a result of looting in the U.S. during May 2020.” The analysis arrived as city business insurance […]

U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA) and U.S. Rep. Dwight Evans (D-PA) recently introduced bicameral legislation that would assist small-business owners whose establishments were damaged by civil unrest following the death of George Floyd. The Helping Entrepreneurs Access Loans Act would appropriate $80 million for 75 percent forgivable physical disaster business loans. To qualify, businesses must […]

Originally posted here PHILADELPHIA, PA — U.S. Senator Pat Toomey (R-PA) and U.S. Congressman Dwight Evans (D-PA 3rd) are launching a bicameral, bipartisan effort to help small businesses that were damaged or destroyed during recent nationwide incidents of civil unrest related to the death of George Floyd. The Toomey-Evans Helping Entrepreneurs Access Loans (HEAL) Act […]

On Thursday, House Ways and Means Select Revenue Measures Subcommittee Chairman Mike Thompson (CA-05) and 47 Members of Congress announced the introduction of Thompson’s Growing Renewable Energy and Efficiency Now, or GREEN Act. This legislation, the principles of which were first unveiled last November, works to tackle the threat of climate change through the tax […]

Two Michigan congressmen behind legislation that would create a $50.5 billion relief fund for small businesses nationwide hope to get it included in the next federal aid package that may come before Congress this summer. The proposed RELIEF for Main Street Act would allocate funding to aid companies with 20 or fewer full-time equivalent employees, […]