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Pasadena city officials and Visit Pasadena announced plans to team with a host of local businesses and cultural institutions in offering a wide selection of discounts and other incentives on June 26, now designated “626 Day.”

Hispanic Business Grant Opportunity:  2021 Small Business Grant Application: UPS + United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Deadline to Apply: June 11, 2021-UPS is committed to keeping Latinx-Owned small businesses moving forward. Covid-19 has impacted small businesses across the board and minority small business community has been especially hard hit. 

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By Jenny Gross

As many Americans prepare to head back to the office, companies are hammering out policies on the extent to which they will require, or strongly encourage, employees to be vaccinated against the coronavirus.

Join us for our virtual networking Connection Breakfast Thursday, June 10th at 8am. 

The Connection Breakfast on June 10th will have a surprise sponsor. (In the future, if you are interested in having seven to ten minutes to promote you business please call Kelly at 626-795-3355 or email kelly@pasadena-chamber.org.)

Eligible small businesses, nonprofits, sole proprietors and independent contractors can still apply for a COVID-19 Economic Injury Disaster Loan.

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SOME WORDS OF WARNING ABOUT LOW-fare seats AND LAX PARKING

By Catharine Hamm for the LA Times.

RSVP Now For The Pasadena Chamber
MEP Webinar On June 15th!

PASADENA POLICE - COMMUNITY BRIEF May 2021: This information provides a greater awareness to the Pasadena community. The critical events detailed below are merely a snapshot of the calls received to the Police Communications Center every day. Your police department strives to better serve the Pasadena community.

How to Handle An Employee With a Job Offer from the Wall Street Journal

FAMILY & TECH by JULIE JARGON

After Hannah Semmes graduated from college last year and began her first full-time job at a healthcare consulting firm, the 22- year-old found herself overwhelmed with all of the new decisions she had to make.

She wasn’t sure which credit card to get, how to find an apartment in New York and whether to invest part of her new salary in a 401(k) or an IRA—or what the difference between them even was.

By Margot Roosevelt for the LA Times: IN CALIFORNIA and the nation, “we are about to have one of the best years of economic growth that we’ve had since World War II,” said Leo Feler, the UCLA Anderson Forecast’s senior economist. 

California’s strict public health measures during the pandemic protected its economy, setting the stage for an even faster recovery in the state than nationwide, UCLA economists reported.