Survey: A Third of US Small Businesses Can’t Pay Rent Because of Inflation

Staff work in a restaurant kitchen in Hoboken, N.J., on June 15, 2020. Jeenah Moon/Getty Images

More than a third of small businesses can’t pay rent, newly released data shows.

The small business network Alignable released new survey results that found that 35 percent of U.S. small business owners “could not pay their rent in full or on time in June.”