I'm glad you're with us here on the Clark Howard Show where it's all about you and that

quality yours.

I want you to learn ideas from me right now that will help you stretch every dollar that

is so key with how so many people are suffering.

The newest unemployment numbers out that are shocking that take us to levels last scene

during the Great Depression in the 1930s.

And one thing I'm going to bring you away later, how do we start reversing that?

How do we get the country back open?

A big topic in Washington and state capitals today.

I'll give you opinions on that.

And I want to talk right now about something that has just absolutely fallen apart.

And that is assistance to small businesses that many of which are just days or weeks away

from shutting down permanently.

And it was the intent of Congress weeks ago to get relief to those small businesses.

And a lot has gone wrong.

There's a new briefing right now on the SBA website at SBA.gov.

For the direct lending program called the Idle, the Economic Injury Disaster Loans for

Coronavirus, they're not taking any applications.

The reason they ran out of money.

They ran out of money pretty much the second day the program was available and started trying

to ration money.

That didn't work.

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