Rawlings-Blake wins primary easily in low turnout, as does Jack Young; Maryland could get $625.5 million under Obama jobs plan; teenager gets 5 years in transgender beating; Maryland’s poverty rate rises; Montgomery Dems blast GOP featuring anti-Muslim “Gopher;” Cassilly doesn’t make the cut for judgeship appointment; and Howard, Montgomery counties come up with redistricting plans.
Day: September 14, 2011
Maryland businesses received $16M in SBA loans following 9/11 attacks
After the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon a decade ago, the U.S. Small Business Administration gave out nearly $16 million in loans to 116 Maryland-based businesses who claimed to be hurt by the disaster. Many of the loans were not repaid, and at least a dozen of the companies are out of business.
Maryland feels sting of national poverty spike
Maryland hit a poverty rate of 10.8%, the highest in nearly two decades, according to a report Tuesday by the U.S. Census Bureau. Maryland’s statistics are well below the national rate of 15.1% — yet the state’s poverty rate has increased 12.5% from 2009 to 2010, the period measured by the annual census report.
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