Rep. Ryan: Government needs to come together to support small businesses through pandemic
Mahoning Valley small businesses are still running with the pandemic small business relief allocated for them months ago.
The owner of West Side Bowl in Youngstown and Congressman Tim Ryan say loans and other funding they received is keeping the lights on, but they are worried that the unknowns related to the Omicron variant of COVID could cause another economic shift.
"You have folks over the last 24 months that as this starts to shake out, they just don't go out much anymore. They used to go out two or three nights a week but are only going out once a week now," Congressman Ryan said.
Congressman Ryan says the government needs to come together to support these small businesses through the rest of the pandemic, in part by the passage of President Biden's Build Back Better Plan.