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SD Legislators to Consider Hundreds of Millions of Dollars to Help Small Businesses

SD Legislators to Consider Hundreds of Millions of Dollars to Help Small Businesses

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Lawmakers will meet in a special session in Pierre on Monday to consider how best to spend federal CARES Act funding. One proposal would allocate four hundred million dollars to help small businesses.

Nathan Sanderson is Executive Director of the South Dakota Retailers Association..

Sanderson says many businesses took pandemic hits…

Sanderson says even with the help, some businesses won’t survive…

The state got a total of about one point two billion dollars from the federal government.

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