WJR Business Beat with Jeff Sloan: Minority-Owned Businesses Hit Hardest by Pandemic (Episode 96)

As we reported on yesterday's Business Beat, concern over a potential secondary wave of closures is high among startups and small businesses that have already had to temporarily close their small businesses as a result of the pandemic. However, there is an additional element of the report by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and MetLife that bears highlighting, relating to how minority-owned small businesses have been disproportionally impacted by the coronavirus and the accompanying economic fallout.

The special report makes clear that when it comes to the concern about whether or not a small business owner might have to permanently close his or her business, two out of three minority owners of small businesses express concern over permanent closure, versus only 57 percent of non-minority business owners.