As Democrats and Republicans spent months last fall arguing over how to rescue the economy, one provision drew widespread support from lawmakers: reviving the Paycheck Protection Program, the government’s marquee effort to help small businesses weather the pandemic. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky called the lending program “a bipartisan slam dunk.” House Democrats
Economists ask: Was PPP meant to save jobs or businesses?
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