It’s unclear what they spent the money on or if they broke the program’s rules. Those companies received more than $1.8 billion total. If you would like to access the data we compiled for this story to report on your community, please contact Data Reporter Joe Yerardi at Integrity found that more than 900 companies took PPP loans while laying off or furloughing at least 90,000 workers in 44 states and the District of Columbia. Public Integrity supports local journalism. Because of inconsistencies in how company names are recorded in the data, these figures likely represent an undercount of the true number of companies that took PPP money prior to downsizing. Public Integrity then combined those notices with loan data from the Paycheck Protection Program. To perform this analysis, Public Integrity collected layoff notices from the 44 states that make such information publicly available, plus the District of Columbia. But Brady Linen did not use the money to rehire Rodriguez and all the other laid-off workers, which the program requires if companies want their loans forgiven. The government-backed loans were supposed to help small businesses that struggled during the pandemic pay employees’ salaries and benefits for up to six months, among other things. On May 27, Brady Linen was approved for a loan of $4.6 million from the federal Paycheck Protection Program, according to data from the U.S. Rodriguez said her boss told her he would call her back when more work was available. In March, Rodriguez and about 800 of her co-workers were laid off from Brady Linen Services, a laundry service provider for hotels in Las Vegas, Mexico and the Bahamas. We ask that you credit our newsroom at the top with a line that says, “This article was originally published by the Center for Public Integrity, a nonprofit investigative news organization based in Washington, D.C.” and link to our homepage. This content is available for republishing
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