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Survey: Growing Number of Small Businesses Can’t Pay Rent

Survey: Growing Number of Small Businesses Can’t Pay Rent
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Newly released small business survey data shows that an alarming number of businesses are unable to pay rent.

Alignable released its monthly small business report for October which showed 37 percent of American small business owners were unable to pay rent on time or in full last month. That is up from 30 percent who said the same the month before.
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