How Can We Protect Small Businesses During The Pandemic?

Americans have yet to receive a second round of federal relief from Congress, leaving small businesses vulnerable to closure.

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An employee of the Mississippi Department of Employment Security WIN Job Center in Pearl, Miss., left, assists a client fill out paperwork, Monday, Aug. 31, 2020. Rogelio V. Solis / ASSOCIATED PRESS
ADP Jobs Report
An employee of the Mississippi Department of Employment Security WIN Job Center in Pearl, Miss., left, assists a client fill out paperwork, Monday, Aug. 31, 2020. Rogelio V. Solis / ASSOCIATED PRESS

How Can We Protect Small Businesses During The Pandemic?

Americans have yet to receive a second round of federal relief from Congress, leaving small businesses vulnerable to closure.

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More than 160,000 businesses across the U.S. have closed during the pandemic, and tens of thousands of those were smaller firms or establishments.

Reset brings on a local small business owner who recently decided to close her brick-and-mortar, and a business researcher on what can be done to support the small business community during this time.

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Kennedy Smith, senior researcher at the Institute for Local Self-Reliance’s Independent Business Initiative