Small Businesses Urge Solution to Problems in Aid Applications

A man wears a mask while walking in the normally busy shopping district of Georgetown in Washington, D.C., on March 23, 2020. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images

Unless small-business owners receive aid within the next month or two, half of them won’t survive the economic fallout caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB).

And the rocky rollout of federal relief applications has some worried.