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My favorite Brazilian steakhouse, a family business, just posted a heartbreaking video of the “safety measures” they intend to take to keep business going. Gloves. Tables spaced further apart. Visors. Many businesses like this operate month to month, & they may disappear soon

I grew up in a family business, a car dealership, that sustained my family for some time. The 1991 recession, a dim memory for some of you and history to those even younger, erased all of my family’s wealth in about a year. We were expanding at the time

My life then began to revolve around precarity: divorce, bankruptcy, time in the child welfare system, etc. By the 1996, I was living with my uncle and cousins and we were eating bean soup seven days a week and rationing pudding out of a huge metal can. TP was one square per BM

If these businesses go down, “small business loans” notwithstanding (hoops most can’t or won’t jump through, despite being a GOP pet project), that will be a disaster that ruins lives for years. The government needs to be engaged in direct cash transfers/total tax waivers