Emergency loans for small businesses ‘flowed to areas less hard hit’ by coronavirus, study finds

A new loan program for small businesses hurt by the coronavirus crisis is especially helping parts of the country not suffering as much from the pandemic, according to a National Bureau of Economic Research paper released this week.

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