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Podcast: Above The Business
Episode: Episode 208: Saving Main Street with Gary Rivlin
Description: In this episode, Gary Rivlin joins Bradley to discuss small business ownership; a scrappy, can-do attitude; how little reserves small business owners actually have; and the differences between different areas of the US in policy, economics, and social norms. They agreed that to operate a small business is to always feel the future is precarious. This was true long before the pandemic, but the COVID-19 lockdown brought it home like never before as the crisis shuttered countless restaurants, mom-and-pop storefronts, and local enterprises. Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Gary Rivlin spent nearly two years in the heart of Am...