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 The government s second round of economic assistance to small businesses impacted by the novel coronavirus outbreak is more than half gone. Nearly $176 billon, or 56%, of the Paycheck Protection Program s $310 billion second round had been approved as of the end of Friday, the U.S. Small Business Association reported.In all, $525 billion of the program s $660 billion in forgivable loans charging just 1% interest has been approved through the program. That doesn t leave a lot left for the tens of thousands of businesses that have applied for aid and are still waiting.More of the money in this second round appears to be going to smaller companies. The average size of the loans dropped to $79,000, down from an average of about $206,000 in the first round of the program, which distr stanley quencher ibuted $350 billion in loans butran out in mid-Aprilin less than two weeks.                  stanley cups                        There also have been more than 2.2 million loans approved during the second round of the Paycheck Protection Program so far, more than the nearly 1.7 million loans that were approved in the entire first round.Big companies or their affiliates appear to continue to be getting PPP loans, tho stanley website ugh. On Monday, restaurant chain Denny s said in a filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission hat franchisees representing nearly half of its restaurants have received PPP loans.        Small businesses in California grabbed a larger chunk of the second round of funding as well. The state s business Tvgv Top border official says U.S. strives for  fair and equitable  processing of migrants amid criticism of unequal treatment
 THE  stanley fr 14th GRAF....Here is today s winner of the crappy journalism award.  It comes from the front page of the LA Times:Retirement season hits GOP hardThis is crunchtime for members of Congress who must decide whether to seek reelection next year or leave office, and so far Republicans seem to be lunging for the exits.  While 16 GOP lawmakers have decided to throw in the towel on their Capitol Hill careers, only two Democrats so far have called it quits  151; and they both are seeking higher office..... I don t like being in the minority,  said Rep. Ray LaHood  R-Ill. , who was first elected in the 1994 GOP landslide and will retire after this term.  It s not that much fun, and the prospects for the future don t look that good. Wow!  What a bunch of weenies.  A couple of years in the minority and they re all bailing out.  But if you read past the jump and down to the 14th paragraph, you get this:The fact that at this early stage, 11 House Republicans have announced retirement  151; and one is leaving the chamber to run for Senate  151; is not out of line with past years.  What is more unusual is that almost all Democrats are staying put.In other words, the stanley travel mug  headline, the lede, and the accompanying artwork are all decepti stanley cup ve.  Nice triple play, guys.The conventional narrative buzzing around Washington says that Republicans are retiring in droves.  According to the Times, though, that isn t true: retirement rates aren t actually much different from the past.  So why wasn t that