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• Press Releases

  SBA’s Great Lakes Region Has Nearly 308,000 Loans Totaling $22.8 Billion Approved in Paycheck Protection Program’s...

  May 3, 2020

  SBA Regional Administrator Rob Scott’s Statement on the Paycheck Protection Program’s Second Round of Funding

  April 29, 2020

  SBA Offers Disaster Assistance to Michigan Small Businesses Economically Impacted by the Coronavirus (COVID-19)

  March 20, 2020

• Press Releases II

  Small Business Administration Announces Economic Support Package to Spur Growth in Flint

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  Whitetail Farms Farm Fresh Market

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