Ruth Simon
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180 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2017
last heard Dec 2020
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They brought employees back.
They were operating at reduced capacity.
But with cases rising, they've had to shut down again.
And the problem now is I think these business owners are exhausted, but they've also run through a lot of their cash reserves, and it's just getting harder.
It's my pleasure.
It's been very hard for a lot of small businesses, particularly ones that depend on face-to-face interaction or are in particularly troubled industries.
For instance, if you provide services to airlines, if you run a bowling alley.
What we found is a lot of them have had to reduce staff.
Either they furloughed them, they've laid them off.
I've talked to businesses that have given up their office space, that have done whatever they can to try to survive.
For example, I talked to the owner of a bowling alley in Chicago, and they had to close.
They did get PPP money, and they brought—that's from the Federal Paycheck Protection Program—
They brought employees back.
They were operating at reduced capacity.
But with cases rising, they've had to shut down again.
And the problem now is, I think these business owners are exhausted, but they've also run through a lot of their cash reserves, and it's just getting harder.
I also talked to the owner of a bus company, and most of his business has gone away.
He does...
school bus trips, military bus trips, commercial charters, and all of it is down if it's there.
He's recently won a handful of contracts, but the margins are so thin because there's so much competition for the contracts that are there that he's really not making much of any money in their
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