LAEDC urges residents who can’t afford internet to apply for the federal Emergency Broadband Benefit
Federal benefit will dovetail with regional Digital Equity Action League (LA DEAL) effort to eliminate the digital divide for good
Category: coronavirus
Keep Our Shops on the Block: Personal Care and Retail Recovery Grant
Attend our webinar to learn how to apply Los Angeles County Regional COVID Fund Keep Our Shops on the Block: Personal Care and Retail Recovery…
How to apply for CA Relief Grant: webinars for Small Business – Register!
JUST ADDED: 2/8 Webinar! In an effort to help the recovery of California small businesses, LAEDC will be conducting short webinar briefings on how to…
Business recovery webinars from LAEDC support small business
LAEDC has posted a series of great webinars to help businesses reinvent, address challenges and recover. Topics include: Dominate the Market / Grow Yo…
Playa Las Tunas restaurant, one of many businesses receiving LAEDC assistance
LAEDC's team continues to assist -- at no cost -- businesses struggling during the pandemic. One great story is Playa Las Tunas restaurant, which had …
CA Relief Grants available for small business: next round starts Feb 2
UPDATE 1/14/21: First round has closed, and the second round has been announced. State of California has opened up two rounds of grants to small bus…
Building cross border relationships in a COVID world: Stephen Cheung on CivitasLA
Dwayne Gathers hosted Stephen Cheung for a 30-minute CivitasLA podcast, exploring the pandemic's disruption to LA's global connections and inbound inv…
April jobs numbers released for LA County: 20% unemployment
California EDD today released it’s April jobs data. The unadjusted unemployment rate for the LA County region was 20.3 percent in April 2020. “While these…
LAEDC provides analysis to business task force and LA County Supervisors
LAEDC CEO Bill Allen highlighted at-risk jobs and industries, and the need to help lower income people of color who have been disproportionately impacted by…
LAEDC research brief: Municipal budget exposure and COVID-19
LAEDC’s Institute for Applied Economics has published this analysis of general revenues of the 88 cities in Los Angeles County, assessing the level to which…
Grifols Collaboration with US Government to Produce the First Treatment Specifically Targeting COVID-19
Lifescience company Grifols, with significant operations in LA, is pivoting to serve immediate health needs during the pandemic, using its advanced blood plasma processing operations…
LAEDC: Potential for 31.7% unemployment rate in LA County by May 2020
On April 21, 2020, the LAEDC Institute for Applied Economics has published estimates for the Southern California economic conditions in May 2020, estimating a potential…