The Latest: Hard-hit restaurants take US pandemic lifeline

NEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on the Treasury decision to identify hundreds of thousands of businesses that received funding through the Paycheck Protection Program, created to preserve jobs at smaller businesses during the coronavirus pandemic:
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The restaurant industry has been particularly hard hit during the pandemic and unsurprisingly many took advantage of the government’s Paycheck Protection Program intended to preserve jobs.M Crowd Restaurant Group, which owns 27 Texas restau