Friday, April 3, 2020

Poll: Large number of small businesses on brink of permanent closure as coronavirus shutdown takes toll

Via Billy


A new survey shows that the restrictions imposed to slow the spread of the coronavirus are causing major damage to the ranks of the nation's small businesses.

In many jurisdictions across the nation, businesses deemed "nonessential" by state or local authorities have been forced to shut down.
The MetLife & U.S. Chamber of Commerce Small Business Index issued a special report Friday on a survey that found 24 percent of small businesses said they were temporarily shut down and another 40 percent expect to close over the next two weeks.

More alarming, however, is the fact that 43 percent of the businesses responding to the survey "believe they have less than six months until a permanent shutdown is unavoidable," the report said.

More @ WND

4 comments:

  1. Has the Constitution and liberty no place in the U.S.? Are the ideals on which the republic so weak that a virus can erase them?

    “Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.”

    ― Benjamin Franklin

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  2. "No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon."

    Jesus the Christ

    “If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.”
    ― Samuel Adams

    Y'all have a nice day.

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