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Fed's Main Street pandemic support program off to slow start

by AP Economics Writers
| August 7, 2020 12:03 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve says that its Main Street Lending Program designed to help small and medium-sized companies get through the pandemic has managed to make just eight loans in its first month of operations.

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