Making Money Public: The Journalistic Construction of the Paycheck Protection…

The Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) was a key component of the United States’ economic policy response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the related economic crisis, offering forgivable loans to small businesses to aid them in retaining their employees. In this article, we theorize and examine the PPP as a “public money,” performing a mixedmethods analysis of news articles covering the PP…