By Selen Ozturk With minority-owned Los Angeles businesses taking a double-hit of the pandemic and recent fires, the county is stepping up help. LA County houses approximately 1,397,434 small businesses, comprising nearly 99.96% of all businesses in the county — with more of these being women- and minority-owned than any other U.S. county. To help these businesses ...

The City of Long Beach celebrated the first businesses to receive a free cart as part of the Sidewalk to Success program, which provides assistance to small businesses to achieve compliance with the City’s sidewalk vending ordinance while easing the financial burden for their sidewalk vending businesses. Carts were presented this week to Ladie Kakes and Lucky ...