This week’s writer is Lindsay Kurrle, secretary of the Vermont Agency of Commerce and Community Development.It’s easy to look back over the last 18 months and see all of the ways that COVID has set us back: from shuttered businesses, to the thousands of Vermonters losing their jobs, a disproportionate amount of whom were women who had to exit the workforce to care for their children.As businesses and families struggled, government provided a safety net through Paycheck Protection Program loans, business gra … (read more)
