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Inflation Is Eating Away at the Heart of America’s Small Businesses

Inflation Is Eating Away at the Heart of America’s Small Businesses
One of Rick McQuaide’s four restaurants, The Kitchen on Main in Ligonier, Penn., is temporarily closed. Salena Zito
Salena Zito
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Of the four restaurants that Rick McQuaide owns across several counties in Western Pennsylvania, one is barely making a profit, two are losing money, and the fourth has been “temporarily” closed for far longer than he ever anticipated.

Salena Zito
Salena Zito
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Salena Zito has held a long, successful career as a national political reporter. Since 1992, she has interviewed every U.S. president and vice president, as well as top leaders in Washington, including secretaries of state, speakers of the House and U.S. Central Command generals. Her passion, though, is interviewing thousands of people across the country. She reaches the Everyman and Everywoman through the lost art of shoe-leather journalism, having traveled along the back roads of 49 states.
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