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Last update: 5 hours agoSME Spotlight: Kansas’ Bright Minds Academy in Hays just won an SBA National Small Business Week award, highlighting how SBA-backed support can help rural operators scale childcare into a 100-staff, multi-center business. Local Infrastructure: New England towns are pushing “complete corridors,” blending safety upgrades with historic preservation—an approach now showing up in New Bedford’s Union Street work and Glastonbury’s Hebron Avenue roundabouts. Payments & Cash Flow: PanteraPay launched an “all-inclusive” smart billing and payment setup aimed at small firms, promising faster getting-paid and fewer card-processing headaches. Fintech & Cross-Border: New Zealand’s Kiwibank CEO says international transfers are ripe for fintechs as lawmakers move toward clearer disclosure of remittance costs. Energy Costs for Small Business: QBE is streamlining its business insurance offerings for brokers and customers, while PG&E’s Foundation is opening a large restaurant resilience grant round. Workforce & Hiring: Imperial County adopted a Lithium Valley construction workforce ordinance to boost local hiring and apprenticeships tied to the project.
Note: AI summary from news headlines; neutral sources weighted more to help reduce bias in the result.
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