i just grabbed this passage from a piece of new . Can u guys help me out what it means-" It was all part of a scramble by small businesses around the country to stay alive by grabbing a piece of a Treasury Department program to pump $349 billion into the sputtering U.S. economy."
S. economy. Small businesses around the country are frantically trying to obtain some of this money in order to survive.
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The Treasury Department is pumping $349 billion into the U.S. economy.
Small businesses around the country are frantically trying to obtain some of this money in order to survive.
"It" (whatever it refers to) was part of this scramble for money.